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0 pointsjosefx3y ago0 comments

> with a safety driver told to lose,

Not only told to loose. I think in at least one case someone was told to crash, completely blocking the raceway on an already narrow curve. I wouldn't be surprised if that where common even as in some sports one bad racer can take out half the competition.

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elif3y ago· 3 in thread

Sorry but having watched every race and attended 11 in the last decade+, I know not only that the event you are imagining didn't happen in the modern era, it simply would not happen to any team during any season.

The penalties for rebuilding a car are reason enough. Being able to hide a coded message for "crash the car" would mean it needs to be discussed before the race began. If the driver followed the command it would be at the risk of HIS superlicense, his entire livelihood, not just some race points for some team he's with for one season.

On the face you've offered an unsubstantiated and impossible enigma for another reader to "solve"

If it weren't for extensive F1 knowledge I might even have been confused by your obvious mistaken recollection or troll.

shakna3y ago

> Sorry but having watched every race and attended 11 in the last decade+, I know not only that the event you are imagining didn't happen in the modern era, it simply would not happen to any team during any season.

That would be the crash in 2008, to the advantage of Fernando. Renault did not contest the charges. In the words of Nelson Piquet Jr.:

> During the Formula One Grand Prix of Singapore, held on 28 September 2008 and counting towards the 2008 FIA Formula One World Championship, I was asked by Mr. Flavio Briatore, who is both my manager and the Team Principal of the Renault F1 Team, and by Mr Pat Symonds, the Technical Director of the ING Renault F1 Team, to deliberately crash my car in order to positively influence the performance of the ING Renault F1 team at the event in question. I agreed to this proposal and caused my car to hit a wall and crash during lap thirteen/fourteen of the race.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20091001201052/http://www.f1sa.c...

mtnGoat3y ago

I guess you must have missed the race then. Just because you aren’t aware of something doesn’t make it untrue.

InitialLastName3y ago

> having watched every race and attended 11 in the last decade+

I'm going to guess that "decade+" maxes out at 14 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Singapore_Grand_Prix

mauvehaus3y ago

Since you're getting downvoted, citation provided [0]. This was a huge deal in F1.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Formula_One_crash_cont...

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