Renault's future in Formula One remains uncertain despite avoiding a big financial penalty in the Singapore race-fixing scandal.

Though the team received a suspended two-year ban on Monday and many see the lenient sentence as an attempt by the FIA to persuade the French manufacturer to stay in the sport.

FIA President Max Mosley confidently said after the World Motor Sport Council ruling that Renault is committed to F1, but the same cannot be said about Bernard Rey - The president of Renault F1, was less forthcoming.

Rey was asked five times about the team's future, which has been in doubt for some time, but refused to answer, saying only: "We apologies for such failure in front of the F1 community, and we hope we can put this behind us."'

Renault is definitely a team that should be there if we really want to see some class in F1. There are too many private teams already and if Toyota, BMW etc. keep pulling out as Honda did, it would loose the glamour !