{"id":3985,"date":"2010-03-31T10:37:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3985"},"modified":"2010-03-31T10:38:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:38:13","slug":"piquets-launch-libel-suit-against-blackmail-accuser-briatore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/f1-general\/piquets-launch-libel-suit-against-blackmail-accuser-briatore\/","title":{"rendered":"Piquets launch libel suit against blackmail accuser Briatore"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Sacked Renault driver Nelson Piquet, and his triple world championship-winning father of the same name, have launched a libel court action against Flavio Briatore.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to the Daily Mail, the pair are seeking 200,000 pounds sterling, with the team&#8217;s ousted boss Briatore &#8211; who was also 24-year-old Piquet&#8217;s manager &#8211; summoned by the High Court in London.<\/p>\n<p>The suit centres around the Singapore race-fixing scandal known in F1 circles as &#8216;crashgate&#8217;, where Piquet deliberately crashed during the 2008 Singapore GP and blew the whistle on his co-conspirators a year later when subsequently fired for his lack of performance.<\/p>\n<p>The British newspaper report said the Piquets&#8217; libel claim involves a press release which accused the father and son of giving false evidence to the FIA and blackmailing Renault F1.<\/p>\n<p>The press release was issued by Renault F1 in September of last year, revealing that the team and Briatore would pursue Piquet criminally in France and Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Renault, who ousted Briatore when it was clear that Piquet&#8217;s accusations were not false, withdrew the legal threats but did not apologise.<\/p>\n<p>The French carmaker then sold most of its Enstone based team to Genii Capital, a Luxembourg based investment company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given Renault F1&#8217;s failure to accept the Piquets&#8217; invitation to withdraw the allegations and apologise, they feel they have no other choice but to demonstrate the falsity of these allegations in court,&#8221; said the Piquets&#8217; lawyer Dominic Crossley.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacked Renault driver Nelson Piquet, and his triple world championship-winning father of the same name, have launched a libel court action against Flavio Briatore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[53],"tags":[397,1200,5262,252,5261,5340,285,501],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3987,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}