Flavio Briatore stepped down today as head of the Renault F1 team amid accusations of race fixing, citing a moral obligation to spare his employers further humiliation following the allegations of race-fixing associated with Nelson Piquet Jr’s crash in Singapore last year, benefiting the team’s other driver Fernando Alonso who went on to win the race.  Now I whole heartedly approve of his record with beautiful models, but this douchebag is about as trustworthy as that Thai masseuse.  I thought happy ending meant she just wanted to cheer me up.  Read more after the jump.

Renault may be expelled from F1, but given convenient departure of Briatore, along with Pat Symonds, the engineering director, means Renault may escape with just a fine.  But everyone knows the whole thing stinks.  Piquet has already testified that he was told by Briatore and Symonds when and where to crash.  You know, if more people cared about F1, it would probably make a fuss about all the total dicks that run it.  But they don’t, seemingly.  F1 has been on a pretty downward trajectory for ages now, and the big boost was supposed to come from, who, but Dubai.  Dubai?  That place is full of dicks!