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Fernando Alonso says Renault just wants to get with racing and put the race-fixing furore behind it now that the culprits have been removed from the team. The double world champion told reporters in Singapore that the time for talking about the scandal was over and he had shut the saga out of his mind.

"From a driver's point of view the only thing that they ask you to do is a good performance, and get some results on Sunday afternoon, so this is the way I am preparing for this race and nothing has been too distracting at the moment," said Alonso.

"What happened is the past, and now it is the present and the future. It has been difficult times for the team maybe but that's the past. Now it's behind us and we move on. Let's concentrate on this race in Singapore, then next weekend in Japan, and life continues so it is time to get some results again. The past is clear, it is right that everything is settled, and it is finished for us."

The team has a new management structure this weekend with Bob Bell promoted from technical director to stand-in team boss following Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds' departures, but Alonso said it still felt like business as usual within the team.

"Pat is not here, and Flavio, but there are other people who are doing similar jobs, so the team has no difference at all compared to any other race and there is no changes at all in how we approach this weekend," he said. "It is just that the media attention that is quite big today, but hopefully for tomorrow and after tomorrow it will become normal again."

He also vehemently denied suggestions in some sections of the media that he must have known about - or at least been suspicious of - the deliberate crash plot. The Spaniard emphasised that the FIA investigation had cleared him of any involvement and that his appearance before the World Motor Sport Council in Paris on Monday had reiterated this.

"I was in Paris just to co-operate with the FIA, to help in the investigation and with my team as well," said Alonso. "I am happy that everything is clear now, and that it is clear I was not involved in the incident. "[Doubters] can read what the FIA has issued, the resolution, that is quite clear. "If it's not understood there then they have a problem with reading."