"Crashgate"

A week or two ago I went through my usual routine of checking the daily sports news and came across the "crashgate" story that is now infamous within the sport and more particularily, the F1 community. My first reaction was "The Piquets are feeling sore and are looking for a way to get back at the Renault team." Lets face it, Nelson Piquet junior hasnt had the most breathtaking Formula 1 career and it was a matter of "when" not "if" he was replaced at Renault so one would assume that he might try and find a way to get revenge. What I didnt expect was to wake up a week later to hear that Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds had left the Renault team in a way that seemed to imply that they were confessing to race-fixing. What next??!! Formula 1 has been through too much controversy over the last few years. From incidents involving the "spygate", the safety car incident with Hamilton and McLaren in Melbourne at the start of the race and now this!! The real shame is is that it is clouding over what is turning out to be a very good championship battle between the two Brawn drivers. The other thing worth mentioning is it really says alot about Briatore that he was willing to risk the life of his driver, other drivers and the track marshals just to win a race. Piquet has been openly critical of Briatore's management well before this incident so maybe there could be many other things behind the scenes that we don't even know about. Whatever the case Formula 1 has to take a good hard look at itself now and try to pick up the pieces and recover. The hearing is on Monday so hopefully after that the sport can put the incident behind them and get on with the racing!!