Ex-Formula One team boss Eddie Jordan believes there must be irrefutable evidence against Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds
Former team boss says Piquet's claims must be true
Ex-Formula One team boss Eddie Jordan believes there must be irrefutable evidence against Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds to make them leave Renault.
The team announced the duo's departure on Wednesday while adding they would not challenge the accusations made by Nelson Piquet Jnr that the former driver was told to crash at the Singapore Grand Prix in 2008.
Renault's team bosses had been called to an extraordinary general meeting at the FIA headquarters in Paris on Monday to defend the charges, but Jordan says their ousting is an admission of guilt.
"The FIA seemed to have clear-cut evidence that what is alleged is what has actually happened," he said.
"And as a result of today, with the standing down of these two people, or Renault letting them go, I get the impression there was clear-cut evidence that it was no longer tenable that they could stay in.
"Renault, by suggesting they're not going to contest the allegation, it is in itself an admission - or that's how I see it. Legally there may be a different argument of course.
"But as a normal person on the street I think this is a clear-cut admission and I am surprised. This is a story that even in your mindset you couldn't set up.
"How would you go to tell a driver, 'Look if you want to keep your seat you've got to do this'.
"The ramifications with the safety, safety of the marshals, the safety of the driver ... you're asking someone to do something that is absolutely ridiculous.
"I ran a team for nearly 30 years and I can't comprehend that is even part of the agenda.
"I don't know how desperate they were.
"In the Jordan team you could contemplate all sorts of things but certainly you wouldn't contemplate that."
