The Times has published extracts of the radio communication and at one point Briatore is heard saying, "f****** hell ... my every f****** disgrace, f******, he's not a driver".
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The transcript starts off with Symonds, Piquet and an engineer discussing the team's strategy.
Symonds: "I can tell you now we are not three-stopping.
Symonds: "Don't worry about fuel because I'm going to get him [Alonso] out of this traffic earlier than that."
Piquet: "What lap are we in, what lap are we in?"
Renault engineer: "He just asked: 'What lap are we in?'"
Symonds replies: "Yeah, tell him that he's about to complete lap eight."
Symonds adds. "No, just tell him, he is about, he's just completing, he's about to complete lap eight."
Later Symonds says: "Right, I'm going to... I think we're going to stop him just before we catch him [Williams driver Kazuki Nakajima, who was ahead of Alonso] and get him out of it, the reason being we've still got this worry on the fuel pump. It's only a couple of laps short. We're going to be stopping him early and we're going to go to lap 40."
Following Alonso's pit stop, Symonds tells to the engineer: "OK right, you've got to push him really bloody hard now. If he [Piquet] doesn't get past Barrichello, he's going nowhere, he's got to get past Barrichello this lap."
Briatore adds: "Tell him, push."
Piquet's race engineer: "Nelson, no excuses now, you've got to get past Barrichello. You've got four clicks straight-line advantage. Come on, you've got to push now, you must get past him."
The Brazilian puts his car in the wall a few minutes later at Turn 17.
Multiple voices: "Nelson's off. F****** hell. Nelson's had a crash. I would say that would be a red flag. It's huge [all speaking at the same time] .
Piquet: "Sorry guys. I had a little outing."
Engineer: "Is he all right, Is he all right?"
Symonds: "Ask him if he's all right."
Engineer: "Are you OK? Are you OK?"
Engineer: "Fernando's just gone past it."
Engineer: "OK, yellow flag."
Piquet: "Yeah, I hit my head in the back. I think I'm OK."
Engineer: "OK, understood."
Symonds: "Right [inaudible], stop him."
Engineer: "Safety car, safety car, safety car, safety car. Fernando, safety car, mixture three."
Symonds: "Tell him to be careful, turn 17 I think it is."
Engineer: "F****** hell that was a big shunt."
Briatore: "F****** hell ... my every f****** disgrace, f******, he's not a driver."
Symonds: "What position is Fernando in?"
Engineer: "Well, we were 20, and we're first guy to pick the safety car up."
Symonds: "Yeah, we're not ..."
Engineer: "He will get away past it but he's got to wait."
Briatore: "What position we are now in all this?"
Symonds replies: "To be honest, I don't know Flavio. It's got to have been good for Fernando. But I honestly don't know where he is.
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