Both Briatore and Symonds resigned from their posts with the Renault team yesterday, after Renault announced it would not be contesting the race-fixing allegations at a World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) hearing today.
Allegations that the team had asked Nelson Piquet to deliberately crash out of last year’s Singapore grand prix to help Fernando Alonso win the race surfaced just before formula one headed to Spa.
There has been many twists and turns in the saga so far and now, Pelata said that he Briatore felt responsible for the controversy.
'Flavio Briatore considered he was morally responsible and resigned,' Pelata told RTL.
'We don't want a fault by two people to reflect upon the whole company and the entire formula one team.
'I don't know all the details but there was a fault and a fault requires a sanction.'
Pelata, Renault’s chief operating officer, wouldn’t give any indication on whether the scandal would result in the French manufacturer pulling out of F1 at the end of the year.
'We will know more about the details after what will happen with the FIA,' said Pelata.
'This is not the debate now - we will have it calmly.
'Formula one is the world's most-watched show and you have to respect that. Formula one has been in the vanguard of progress for car technology.
'It is probably not the case at the moment, but it could be again and it is always what Renault have tried to do.'
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