At a seven-day hearing at Bedford Employment Tribunals last October, Mr Harlock claimed automatic unfair dismissal for whistle-blowing for which the hearing found in his favour.

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Only recently Piquet was sacked by the team, with the suggestion it is the 24-year-old, or his father and manager Nelson Piquet snr, who has since blown the whistle, prompting an investigation, and now subsequent hearing.

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