Word: piquet
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...sport. In the wake of a threatened walkout by teams fuming at new cost-cutting rules, public squabbling over Formula One's leadership and an episode of spying, the latest revelation could tar the image of motor sport's blue-ribbon event irreparably. The collision by Renault's Nelson Piquet Jr. during the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix - enabling his teammate to snatch an unlikely victory - endangered the driver, his rivals, race marshals and even the spectators. It was, wrote the Times of London's Simon Barnes "the worst single piece of cheating in the history of sport...