Renault has appointed Bob Bell as temporary new head of its Formula One in the aftermath of one of the sport's biggest scandals.
Bell is a former technical director. He replaces Flavio Briatore, who left the team amid allegations by Nelson Piquet Jr. that he was ordered crash at last year's Singapore Grand Prix to help teammate Fernando Alonso win.
Renault received a suspended ban from the sport at a hearing in Paris on Monday. Briatore was banned indefinitely from F1.
Renault says in a statement Wednesday that Bell also will act as chief technical officer. Jean-Francois Caubet takes over as managing director. Caubet was previously director of marketing and communications.
They will lead the team until the end of the season.

Renault have just lost their Main sponsors Ing & Mutua Madrilena ...

With immediate effect All logos, excreta and so on to be removed from cars and overalls .
I can see it Now ,
The respective CEO's striding down pit Lane and halting outside the Renault Garage Pausing a moment to tear the stickers from the Cars before they gets stuck into a Pile of race suits breaking symbolic swords over their knees........
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Meanwhile Flavio has Fallen out with his bestest Mate Bernie E, 'cause he didn't stick up for him. Flavio BTW, it seems is on a small Yacht sailing/sulking around Italy. he is not now on speaking terms with Bernie.
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Meanwhile back with the Drivers.......The press are getting up Alonso's nose repeating questions about if he knew about the dastardly plot ...
Nelson P talks about going to the states to keep his hand in before trying to get back where he belongs in F1 maybe a year he thinks
You have to remember He was the actual one that crashed the car
sure he's sorry now


Aint it all a shame ......

Barrichello leads Button in first practice

Yes . .

The Australian lapped his RB5 in 1m 49.317s to Vettel's 1m 49.621s, but then spun in the final corner and damaged the right-hand side of his car against the wall, bringing out the red flag for the second time in the day. When the session resumed Vettel soon pushed ahead, with 1m 48.650s.

Fernando Alonso improved to 1m 48.924s for Renault right at the end of the hour and a half, pushing Heikki Kovalainen down to third, the Finn having lapped his McLaren in 1m 48.952s.

Nick Heidfeld, who had earlier on been quickest for BMW Sauber, was fourth on 1m 49.098s. The German had a gearbox change in the earlier session, but it remains to be seen whether he will incur a grid penalty.

Jenson Button was fifth for Brawn on 1m 49.311s, with Webber sixth on the strength of his 1m 49.317s. Yet again the times in the midfield were very tight; Nico Rosberg was seventh for Williams on 1m 49.333s, just ahead of Timo Glock who took his Toyota round in 1m 49.342s and Lewis Hamilton, who did 1m 49.358s in the second McLaren. Then came BMw Sauber's Robert Kubica (1m 49.609s), Brawn GP's Rubens Barrichello (1m 49.616s), Force India's Adrian Sutil (1m 49.710s), Toyota's Jarno Trulli (1m 49.795s) and Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen (1m 49.941s), rounded out those below 1m 50s.

And Felipe Massa is recovering well and has resumed fitness training after the horrific injuries he sustained at the Hungarian Grand Prix in July, Ferrari said on Friday.

Earlier this month, Massa said he was having an operation to implant a titanium infused plate into his head, so that next season he will be ready to race again.

Ferrari team principal Stephano Domenicalli said Massa would not be rushed back, but added that he was recovering well.

"Felipe is recovering quite well," he said on the sidelines of the Singapore Grand Prix.

"He has started a fitness training programme so the next step after that is to start on the simulator and then on karts.

"As soon as these things are fine then we will decide when to bring him back in a proper racing car."

Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has made clear he plans to retain Massa next year but has yet to decide who will be his partner with speculation mounting that Kimi Raikkonen will be dumped in favour of Fernando Alonso.