When the Grand Prix of Brazil ended on Sunday, and Fernando Alonso was tranquil second in the world contest of drivers, thousands of Brazilians at the Interleague track and millions more all through the country rejoiced.
Nelson Piquet Jr., who is reinventing himself in NASCAR at present, was a little F1 driver with Renault when, in 2008, acting on directions from the mortified team principal Flavio Briatore and the evenly mortified chief engineer Pat Symonds, he intentionally not working his car at a strategic instant in the race and this enabled his colleague, Alonso, to leapfrog to the front of the pack and go on to win the Grand Prix of Singapore.
If that wasn’t bad sufficient, last week at the U.S. Grand Prix at the track of the Americas outside Austin, Tex., Ferrari had to figure out a way to move Alonso up in the preliminary arrange. He hadn’t competent well and was preliminary eighth and on the "dirty" side of the product new race track.
So Ferrari intentional broke an FIA close on the gearbox of Brazilian hero Felipe Massa racing vehicle, which resulted in a five grid-position fine. Massa went from sixth on the grid to 11th and Alonso moved up a blemish, which put him on the "clean" side of the macadam.
The exploitation of Piquet Jr.in Singapore was bad sufficient but when Ferrari used Massa to advantage Alonso in Texas, it was the last straw. And then, of track, they had to watch Massa on Sunday ride shotgun for Alonso, even giving up his second-place location late in the challenge so his colleague could score more points.
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