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http://www.planetf1.com/story/0,18954,3213_5562506,00.html

Where's the order for Piquet to crash on purpose?

The Times has published extracts of the radio communication and at one point Briatore is heard saying, "f****** hell ... my every f****** disgrace, f******, he's not a driver".


The transcript starts off with Symonds, Piquet and an engineer discussing the team's strategy.


Symonds: "I can tell you now we are not three-stopping.


Symonds: "Don't worry about fuel because I'm going to get him [Alonso] out of this traffic earlier than that."


Piquet: "What lap are we in, what lap are we in?"


Renault engineer: "He just asked: 'What lap are we in?'"


Symonds replies: "Yeah, tell him that he's about to complete lap eight."


Symonds adds. "No, just tell him, he is about, he's just completing, he's about to complete lap eight."


Later Symonds says: "Right, I'm going to... I think we're going to stop him just before we catch him [Williams driver Kazuki Nakajima, who was ahead of Alonso] and get him out of it, the reason being we've still got this worry on the fuel pump. It's only a couple of laps short. We're going to be stopping him early and we're going to go to lap 40."


Following Alonso's pit stop, Symonds tells to the engineer: "OK right, you've got to push him really bloody hard now. If he [Piquet] doesn't get past Barrichello, he's going nowhere, he's got to get past Barrichello this lap."


Briatore adds: "Tell him, push."


Piquet's race engineer: "Nelson, no excuses now, you've got to get past Barrichello. You've got four clicks straight-line advantage. Come on, you've got to push now, you must get past him."


The Brazilian puts his car in the wall a few minutes later at Turn 17.


Multiple voices: "Nelson's off. F****** hell. Nelson's had a crash. I would say that would be a red flag. It's huge [all speaking at the same time] .


Piquet: "Sorry guys. I had a little outing."


Engineer: "Is he all right, Is he all right?"


Symonds: "Ask him if he's all right."


Engineer: "Are you OK? Are you OK?"


Engineer: "Fernando's just gone past it."


Engineer: "OK, yellow flag."


Piquet: "Yeah, I hit my head in the back. I think I'm OK."


Engineer: "OK, understood."


Symonds: "Right [inaudible], stop him."


Engineer: "Safety car, safety car, safety car, safety car. Fernando, safety car, mixture three."


Symonds: "Tell him to be careful, turn 17 I think it is."


Engineer: "F****** hell that was a big shunt."


Briatore: "F****** hell ... my every f****** disgrace, f******, he's not a driver."


Symonds: "What position is Fernando in?"


Engineer: "Well, we were 20, and we're first guy to pick the safety car up."


Symonds: "Yeah, we're not ..."


Engineer: "He will get away past it but he's got to wait."


Briatore: "What position we are now in all this?"


Symonds replies: "To be honest, I don't know Flavio. It's got to have been good for Fernando. But I honestly don't know where he is."

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