PARIS: The Renault Formula One team were yesterday handed a two-year suspended ban from the sport by the International Automobile Federation (FIA) for ordering Nelson Piquet Jr to crash in the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix.
The FIA have told the French team that the threat of a permanent ban from the sport will hang over them until the end of the 2011 season and will only be activated during that time if they are found guilty of a similar charge.
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