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Post by QPR Report on Dec 12, 2009 10:03:22 GMT
January 5, 2010 (Tuesday) or so...
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Post by QPR Report on Dec 16, 2009 8:54:43 GMT
If court rules for him, hope he can still return to Renault & F!! And if he's not unbanned, presumably the Football authorities will actually do something Renault to reveal F1 plans today Renault will hold a press conference today to clarify its F1 future. — Reuters pic LONDON, Dec 16 — Renault will reveal the future of their Formula One team today, ending weeks of speculation that they are planning to sell a majority stake in the former champions. The French carmaker said team president Bernard Rey and managing director Jean-Francois Caubet would attend a news conference in Paris “to present the position of Renault in Formula One.” Formula One’s commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone said last week that Renault were evaluating several rival bids for the team, who were champions in 2005 and 2006 with Spain’s Fernando Alonso. One frontrunner to take over is Luxembourg-based businessman Gerard Lopez, the founder of technology investment company Mangrove Capital Partners who was also an early investor in Skype. “We see the whole environment as providing an opportunity,” Lopez told a motorsport business forum in Monaco last week. “The situation is such right now that it provides an opportunity for new teams and new investors — it’s not a time of uncertainty but a time of change. “Times of change usually provide an entry point. We believe there is a chance to enter the sport and build a platform that sort of has to reinvent itself. If we were to become part of F1 we could be part of that reinvention,” he added. Some media reports have suggested that Ecclestone and the Renault board favour a Lopez takeover because he would be willing to continue racing under the Renault name. The Prodrive company led by David Richards, who is also chairman of British sportscar maker Aston Martin, is considered the other main bidder. Richards ran the Benetton team that Renault took over in 2002. Prodrive secured a slot to enter Formula One in 2008 but withdrew due to uncertainty about the sport’s future regulations. They applied again this year to be one of three new teams but were passed over. Renault, whose team were handed a suspended permanent ban in September for their involvement in a race-fixing controversy which resulted in ex-principal Flavio Briatore being barred for life, have not commented on the speculation. The team have signed Polish driver Robert Kubica for 2010. — Reuters www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/sports/46715-renault-to-reveal-f1-plans-today
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Post by QPR Report on Dec 17, 2009 19:18:55 GMT
Karma Time?
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Post by QPR Report on Dec 21, 2009 9:01:01 GMT
Mosley defends himself against 'revenge' claimswww.uknetguide.co.uk/Latest-News/Mosley-defends-himself-against-revenge-claims-19520353.htmlFormer FIA president Max Mosley has shunned claims that the punishment dealt to Flavio Briatore for his involvement in the race-fixing scandal was motivated by personal revenge. Ex-Renault boss Briatore was handed an indefinite ban from all FIA-run motorsport series for his part in the 'crashgate' saga, when Nelson Piquet Junior was asked to deliberately crash his car in order to assist the strategy of team-mate Fernando Alonso at the 2008 Singapore grand prix. The Italian has launched legal proceedings against the sport's governing body over his punishment, claiming that Mosley was "blinded by an excessive desire for personal revenge" and accusing the FIA of being in "breach of the most basic rules of procedure and the rights to a fair trial". But Mosley has moved to deny these suggestions by issuing a press statement to defend his actions. "Briatore should be the last person to complain that the FIA has not treated him fairly," said Mosley. "The FIA has repeatedly given him the benefit of the doubt. "It did so when prohibited software was found in a car under his control, again when a component was removed from his team's refuelling equipment, again when his team failed to declare properly the purpose of a particular suspension component and most recently when they were caught with information illicitly acquired from another team." Mosley added that the FIA had to deal out harsh punishments to the guilty parties in the race-fixing controversy because of the overwhelming evidence that was presented to the World Motor Sport Council (WMSC). "Once the FIA had a sworn statement from Nelson Piquet confirming that he was ordered to crash, a full professional inquiry conducted by outside lawyers was inevitable," said Mosley. "That inquiry, like Renault's own investigation, established Briatore's responsibility beyond question. "The suggestion that all this was somehow manufactured for reasons of personal vengeance is a desperate and unsustainable argument. "By persuading the Guardian to publish sensationalist extracts from his court submissions, without any mention of the other side of the story, Briatore succeeded in using that newspaper to distract attention from his key role in one of the worst and most dangerous examples of deliberate cheating in the history of sport." 21 December 2009, www.uknetguide.co.uk/Latest-News/Mosley-defends-himself-against-revenge-claims-19520353.html
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Post by londonranger on Dec 28, 2009 19:39:46 GMT
mcWhinney is an Arsenal fan, but I think he will not get off but he will be ok for us.
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Post by QPR Report on Dec 29, 2009 11:09:48 GMT
And the countdown continues. (Although what happens that - whatever the decision, who knows) ...Probably a slow process with QPR left "twist[ing] slowly, slowly in the wind"
Anyone hopes he stays at QPR?
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Post by Lonegunmen on Dec 29, 2009 11:40:41 GMT
Briatore would be great at QPR if only he truely understood the role a chairman plays at a club and restricted himself to that role. Sure he's brought some glamour and pub;icity to the club and of course some much needed money but the negatives are outweighing the positives and that to me is a shame. This used to be a club about family and about charactors. Flavio is a charactor but that's about it at the mo. Dein from the Arse needs to have a chat with him about responsibilities.
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Post by londonranger on Dec 29, 2009 15:00:51 GMT
he wont show up. extension or wife is sick, or hell be ill.
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Post by QPR Report on Dec 29, 2009 15:18:51 GMT
His car will get into an accident on the way to the court?
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Post by londonranger on Dec 29, 2009 15:19:55 GMT
crashgate II
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Post by QPR Report on Dec 29, 2009 15:26:36 GMT
Have to be careful that don't get a certain reader "harrumphing" his professed outrage at such a post.
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Post by haqpr1963 on Dec 29, 2009 15:35:24 GMT
Just to save him the trouble....
So called fans, attacking the club instead of getting behind them when they need us most, digging up stuff from years ago, etc, etc, ad nauseum.....
(Come to think of it, rather than doing a managers diary (hardly here long enough to get going) perhaps I should do a "real supporters" diary....)
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Post by cpr on Dec 29, 2009 16:34:15 GMT
So called fans attacking other fans for posting facts from the past seems to be so called fans wanting to embellish or whitewash a past they choose to ignore.
Along with these so called fans constantly proclaiming their unswerving love of the club and being lifelong fans.
Seems to me they follow an individual rather than a club.
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Post by QPR Report on Jan 3, 2010 11:25:14 GMT
Bumped... 48 hours or so... Till "Judgement at..."
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