Put the verbs in brackets in the past sin1ple, past perfect, or past continuous. In the autumn of 2008, Nelson Piquet Jr. 1 found
(find) himself in the middle of one of sport's greatest
controversies - had he or hadn't he deliberately crashed his car
during the Singapore Grand Prix?
Piquet Jr. ... (form) part of the Renault
Formula 1 team which also ... (include) the
Spanish driver Fernando Alonso. According to Piquet, the day
before the race, while he ...(prepare) to drive,
two senior Renault F1 directors asked to speak to Piquet Jr. He
went to see them in their offices, and as soon as he
... (sit down), the two directors took out a map
of the Singapore circuit. They then ... (show)
him the exact corner on the map where they wanted him to crash
his car, and the exact moment when they wanted it to happen. The
directors ... (choose) this corner because they
knew rescue teams couldn't get to this part of the track quickly, so
all the drivers would have to slow down. Piquet agreed to 'sacrifice' his race so that his
teammate, Alonso, could win.
While Piquet
... (drive)
around the circuit for the
14th time, he
(crash) his car. This allowed Alonso to make
an early pit stop and ... (give) him an
advantage. After Piquet crashed, Alonso 11 _
(overtake) the other drivers and 12 (go) on to
win the race.
In 2009, after Piquet ... (leave) Renault, there
was an investigation. Piquet admitted that he
•
(crash) his car on purpose under
instruction from Renault. At first, Renault 15 ___ _ _ _
(accuse) Piquet of lying, but finally they 16 _ _
(admit) their guilt.

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