Pat Symonds, the director of engineering at Renault, is expected to be offered immunity from punishment by the FIA as part of its investigation into Nelson Piquet Jr's crash at the Singapore grand prix. The FIA, the sport's governing body, has reportedly told Symonds that he will escape punishment if he reveals details of the alleged plan involving Piquet. That would mean both he and Piquet would have immunity when they go into the FIA's World Motor Sport Council in Paris on Monday.
Flavio Briatore, the Renault team principal, has apparently not been offered immunity.
Max Mosley, the FIA president, has said in an interview with the Guardian that there appears to be evidence to support the claims made by Piquet Jr that he deliberately crashed his car at last year's race.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/sep/15/pat-symonds-renault-piquet-briatore
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Certainly the data from the car indicated that something very unusual had happened on the corner where he crashed – according to the experts who look at these things, so there was enough there to make it unthinkable not to investigate." Mosely said in reference to analysis of Renault's telemetry from last September.
Flavio Briatore, the team principal at Renault, has had some bitter disagreements with Mosley and had advocated a possible breakaway from the FIA.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/sep/15/formulaone-renault
