Fernando Alonso won the Singapore Grand Prix, the first-ever night race, for the Renault team from 15th on the grid


Sunday 28th September 2008

Fernando Alonso won the Singapore Grand Prix, the first-ever night race, for the Renault team from 15th on the grid. Nico Rosberg claimed second in his Williams followed by McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton. In September 2009, Renault F1 admitted to an FIA World Motor Sport Council meeting that Piquet had deliberately crashed per instructions from Renault team principal Flavio Briatore and chief engineer Pat Symonds, in the hope of helping Alonso win. The Renault team were handed a disqualification from Formula 1, which was suspended for two years pending any further rule infringements. Briatore was banned from all FIA-sanctioned events for life, while Symonds was banned for five years. However, Briatore and Symonds sued the FIA in French courts, and on January 5, 2010, the Tribunal de Grande Instance overturned the ban which had been put in place on both men.


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