Looks like confirmed: Piquet dropped by Renault

[fizzycola]

This has been talked about for a wee while now..

fizzy


from formula1 complete.com

The big rumour as evening fell and journalists debriefed at the Hungaroring on Friday evening was that Renault has indeed decided to drop Nelson Piquet.

The struggling Brazilian admitted 24 hours earlier in Budapest that his seat for the remainder of 2009 is in doubt, following a "conflict of egos" behind closed doors at the Nurburgring two weeks ago.

It seems the conflict was between his famous father and team boss Flavio Briatore, after the latter informed the Piquet camp that Germany was the 23-year-old's last race.

According to the Hungary speculation, triple world champion Piquet Snr insisted that his son's contract specifically prohibits Renault from axing him for performance reasons when the specifications of the two cars do not match.

Piquet's R29 has now been brought up to scratch with the updated specification enjoyed by Fernando Alonso at the Nurburgring, moving the Renault camp to issue another round of notice that he will be imminently departing the team.

His replacement at Valencia and beyond will be the Swiss-French rookie Romain Grosjean, who had a big crash during GP2 qualifying at the Hungaroring on Friday afternoon.

[gizzy]

His team mate Freddy got the pole...and Nelson was somewhere back at the end of the pack. There was such a huge gap between team mates...I guess this was the straw that broke the camel's back. Nelson looked good for a while...but results count.

[seabassfan]

:oPiquet blames a "conflict of egos"- darn right, renault may not expect you to win, but you, at least have to be close to your team mate! He and Bourdais just can't handle F1!

[f1diva]

Piquet has achieved a lot in his career. British F3 champion and successful in GP2. He had all the right ingredients to be successful in F1. Now he came into Renault in 2008 with Ferdy as team leader. Don't forget Alonso had a rookie team mate in 2007, i can't seem to remember his name hehe, but he took all the headlines and largely outperformed Ferdy. When he signed his Renault contract for 2008 i am sure he would have taken measures to ensure that Piquet didn't create a 2007 repeat. I sincerely believe that had lil Piquet joined a different team we would not be discussing his exit from F1.

F1Diva

[blacktulip]

The name you are looking for is Hamilton (he who tells lies) yea I am sure Alonso had a clause in his contract to make sure his ego was never upstaged again.

Not sure if the car was to blame for young Nelsons performance though as we will never know if or what the techs of each car were