Briatore felt responsible, and quit - Renault chiefRenault chairman Patrick Pelata admitted the 'crashgate' affair which has left the company's Formula One team facing sanctions for cheating has been a massive blow for the company. And Pelata said that former team chief Flavio Briatore Flavio Briatore (born April 12, 1950) is an Italian businessman and managing director of the Renault Formula One team. Early life and Benetton career Briatore was born in Verzuolo near Cuneo, Italy, in the Maritime Alps, from a family of elementary school teachers. , who sensationally quit Renault on Wednesday with chief engineering director Pat Symonds Patrick (Pat) Bruce Reith Symonds (born June 11 1953 in England) is currently the Executive Director of Engineering of the Renault Formula One team. After Gresham's School, Holt, Symonds worked in the lower motor sport categories and joined the Toleman team in the early as Renault admitted their guilt in the affair, considered himself to be "morally responsible". Pelata is the first representative from Renault to officially comment on the affair which centres on claims of cheating by their Formula One team at last year's Singapore Grand Prix The Singapore Grand Prix is a Formula One auto race scheduled to take place on 28 September 2008. To be staged in the Marina Bay area, the circuit has been given in-principle approval by the FIA,[1] and is expected to be the first night race[2] won by former Renault driver Fernando Alonso. The other Renault driver during that race, Nelson Piquet junior, claims he was asked by Renault to crash deliberately so giving a race-winning advantage to Alonso. Piquet piquet or picquet (both: pēkā`), card game played by two persons with a deck of 32 cards—7 (low) up to ace (high) in each suit. Each player receives 12 cards, and eight cards are left on the table face down. junior was sacked by Briatore in August after failing to live up to the team's race expectations. When asked Thursday by RTL (Register Transfer Level) A high-level hardware description language (HDL) for defining digital circuits. The circuits are described as a collection of registers, Boolean equations, control logic such as "if-then-else" statements as well as complex event sequences; radio if the scandal had been a blow to the company, Pelata said: "Yes." He added: "The team believes that a (professional) mistake has been made, and when a mistake is made punishment must follow. "Piquet had already gone and Pat Symonds has left us. Flavio Briatore considered himself to be morally responsible and resigned." Asked to comment on the future of Renault in the sport, Pelata said: "This is not the issue right now. We will take our time before looking at our options." Renault had initially denied all claims made against them by Piquet junior. But on Wednesday the team appeared to admit their role in the controversy by saying they "would not contest the FIA's recent allegations concerning the Singapore Grand Prix". Renault will still appear before the FIA's International Motor Sport Council in Paris on September 21 to answer Nelson Piquet junior's claims. And although they could theoretically be thrown out of the sport for race-fixing, it is believed the departure of Briatore and Symonds, and Renault's admission of guilt admission of guilt n. a statement by someone accused of a crime that he/she committed the offense. If the admission is made outside court to a police officer it may be introduced as evidence if the defendant was given the proper warnings as to his/her rights , could go in their favour in any ruling. A report by The Times on Tuesday, citing unnamed sources, claimed the FIA FIA feline infectious anemia. had offered Renault second-in-command immunity from punishment in exchange for full disclosure about crashgate. 
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