Flavio Briatore

Flavio Briatore’s Lifetime Formula 1 Ban is Overturned

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Another chapter of the 2009 Crashgate scandal has been brought to a close.  Flavio Briatore’s lifetime ban from Formula 1 has been overturned by a French judge.  Briatore, the former team principal of the Renault team, had received the ban by the FIA for his alleged participation in a race-fixing scheme at the 2008 Singapore [...]

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Prost to Head Renault in 2010?

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Alain Prost is apparently still in the picture as a prospective team principal at Renault for 2010 and beyond.  While there has been no official statement by Renault, their current management team, Bob Bell and Jean-François Caubet, are currently serving on an interim basis, to the end of 2009.  Bell and Caubet were appointed hastily [...]

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Kubica Inks Renault Deal

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Team Renault have confirmed that they will be joined by BMW driver Robert Kubica in 2010.  The move had been suspected since current Renault pilot Fernando Alonso announced his move to Ferrari for next year.  It was thought that Alonso’s move would start a chain reaction in this year’s drivers’ market shuffle.  Kubica’s move is [...]

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Crashgate Settled

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The Crashgate saga appears to have come to an end. Renault have been handed a two-year suspended ban from the sport for their inadvertent participation in the conspiracy. Engineering head Pat Symonds has been ousted from the sport for five years, and team boss Flavio Briatore has been banned permanently. To many, this seems like [...]

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Piquet Sr Revises His Alonso Accuastion

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Nelson Piquet, Sr is now modifying his earlier claim that Fernando Alonso was fully aware of the plan allegedly put in motion by Flavio Briatore and Pay Symonds at Singapore last year to have Nelson Piquet, Jr deliberately crash out of the race to bring out a Safety Car. While Piquet, Sr had previously stated [...]

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Piquet Sr Willing to Take Flavio to Court

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According to a report published in the German publication Auto Motor und Sport, Nelson Piquet, Sr. is using current allegations against Flavio Briatore as leverage to extricate Piquet, Jr. from a long-term that currently binds the young Brazilian driver to the Italian impresario.  Briatore, who has long been mentor and manager to many drivers on [...]

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Briatore on Piquet: “He’s Not a Driver.”

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With the “Crashgate” investigation gathering steam, it is apparent that Renault executives have found the case against team bosses Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds to be damning enough to warrant their expulsion from the team. There has been a steady flow of leaks during this inquiry, and each additional bit of information that has been [...]

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Briatore and Symonds Leave Renault

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In yet another dramatic development in the Crashgate saga, Team Renault have decided to attempt damage control by releasing team director Flavio Briatore, and chief engineer Pat Symonds with immediate effect.  Along with announcing the departure of Briatore and Symonds, the official statement from the team stated that, “The ING Renault F1 Team will not [...]

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Symonds Offered Deal to Finger Flavio

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In the latest development in the Crashgate scandal, Renault’s head of engineering Pat Symonds has been offered immunity from any penalties or sanctions that might be imposed by the FIA in return for his full cooperation in the ongoing investigation.  Whether or not Symonds has accepted the offer is unclear. It is quite clear, however, [...]

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Renault Takes Legal Action Against Piquet

September 11, 2009

The Crashgate saga grows more peculiar on a daily basis.  According to reports in The Times today, Renault have fired a retaliatory initiating legal action against the Piquets, Nelson Jr. and Sr. both, for “the making of false allegations and a related attempt to blackmail the team into allowing Piquet Jr to drive for the [...]

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