Renault have been given a suspended permanent disqualification from Formula One after motor sport's governing body ruled on Nelson Piquet Jr's crash during last year's Singapore Grand Prix.
Piquet Jr claimed in sworn statements to the FIA he was ordered to crash his car a few hours prior to the sport's first night race, to aid the cause of team-mate Fernando Alonso.
Depite admitting the 'unparalleled severity' merited permanent disqualification, the World Motorsport Council instead suspended the punishment for two years after taking into consideration the steps taken by Renault 'to identify and address the failings within its team and condemn the actions of the individuals involved'.
The FIA has effectively handed Flavio Briatore a lifetime ban from motor sport, as well as determining he should not manage any drivers. There are currently four prominent F1 stars in his stable.
The flamboyant Italian insisted no wrongdoing took place during last year's race in Singapore, but the council decided he was 'complicit', also ruling that he continued 'to deny his participation in the breach despite all the evidence'.
Pat Symonds, who resigned from his role as the team's executive director of engineering last week, has been handed a five-year ban from motor sport.
Following the hearing at the FIA headquarters in Paris, the WMSC gave Symonds a more lenient sentence than Briatore as he accepted his part in the conspiracy, as well as communicating to the 26 members of the council that he participated in the event to his 'eternal regret and shame'.
