Paris: Renault escaped severe punishment on Monday for ordering former driver Nelson Piquet Jr to deliberately crash, receiving only a suspended two-year ban from Formula One's governing body.
Flavio Briatore, who quit as team principal last week, was banned indefinitely from any F1 activities by the World Motor Sport Council.
Engineering executive director Pat Symonds, who also left the French team last week, was banned for five years.
"We apologised in front of the World Motor Sport Council," Renault F1 president Bernard Rey said. "We took full responsibility and we hope that we will enjoy better days in the future."
Rey, whose team could have been kicked out of Formula One, gave no response to a question about whether Renault would stay in the sport next season.
Piquet was ordered to crash at last year's Singapore Grand Prix to help teammate Fernando Alonso win.
Alonso, who attended the hearing in Paris, was cleared of any wrongdoing.
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