The FIA president said that fixing a Formula One race, if proven to have happened, would be far more serious than cheating in the eyes of the World Motor Sport Council. While aware that there are some very strong evidence linking the Enstone based team to the charges, Mosley insisted however that no one should issue any verdicts before the September 21st meeting of the WMSC, as Renault are entitled to their defence.
“If you look at any other sport, if somebody fixes the result then it's usually taken seriously. Fixing is one degree worse than cheating. (...) If it puts human life at risk, whether it's the spectators, the marshals or the drivers, then it's more serious again. The moment we talk about that, we sort of imply they (Renault) are guilty, but we don't know. Until they put their defence in, we've got to assume they're innocent,” said Mosley, according to the British publication Autosport.
Talking about Piquet – amid rumors that later proved to be right that Flavio Briatore and Renault will press criminal charges against him and his father – Mosley confirmed he will be granted immunity as a result of coming clean and submitting all the necessary evidence to the FIA.
“We have said to him that, and I don't know exactly how it was phrased, but he has been told that if he tells us the truth then he will not be proceeded against individually. It is exactly the same as it was for Alonso (in the spy-gate in 2007)” added Mosley.
In addition, Mosley said he has taken every logical step to find out how the information from the Renault dossier were leaked to the media on Thursday and make sure it won't happen again in future cases.
“We are quite genuinely curious at to how that happened. Next time, when we send out to 20 or 30 people, we will probably arrange it in such a way that we can tell who is leaking stuff. We don't know how it happened. But none of that means anything. What means something is when we get their defense, which will not be until next week,” concluded the FIA president.
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