The rumours had been circulating for a while, but it now seems certain: Flavio Briatore is to return to Formula 1. The eccentric former team boss of Benetton and Renault will reportedly take on a role in maintaining commercial relationships.
According to Dutch De Telegraaf journalist Erik van Haren, Briatore will take on an advisory role. He would go on to help the sport's management maintain relationships with promoters of Grands Prix and other commercial projects.
'Briatore return to Formula 1 definitive'
The return comes after a long period of absence. The Italian was suspended by the FIA in 2009 for his part in 'crashgate', in which he deliberately crashed Nelson Piquet Jr. to provoke a safety car situation and thus help Fernando Alonso to victory.
That suspension was invalidated a few months later for lack of evidence. Briatore was not allowed to show his face in the premier class of motorsport for a number of years.
Why are race fixers always prepared to put lives at risk for a result? Piquet could have really hurt himself. Like the Marshalls being forced to operate heavy equipment at Abu Dhabi 2021 as oil was leaking from Latfi's car, brakes set on fire and cars still on the track. How is the sport sacking Masi and bringing back this crook? It means there is hope for Masi too.
Probably true., Briatore reminds me of one politician in my country where it was a well known fact that the guy was extremely corrupt, but after few years of laying low he’s back in politics like nothing happened.
Briatore shouldn’t come back but this is F1, money talks, as long as you’re not Russian and you have money everything’s possible
Bring back Benetton.
Alpha Tauri vs Benetton. The fashion battle.
I didn't even realize Benetton clothing still existed. I used to love that team during the Piquet and Schumacher years, but the clothing company family were some profoundly awful people. We studied their abusive relationship with their workforce in my college comparative political economy class thirty years ago, and then they went into trying to turn serial killers and rapists into celebrities. Just a bunch of nasty globalists who would fit in too well with the WEF today.
If you didn't know, well now you know.
On 28 September 2008, on the 14th lap of the Singapore race, the Renault R28 driven by Piquet crashed into the circuit wall at turn 17, necessitating a safety car deployment. Alonso had previously made an early pitstop, and was promoted to the race lead as other cars pitted under safety car conditions. Alonso subsequently won the race after starting 15th on the grid. Piquet described his crash at the time as a simple mistake.
After being dropped by the Renault team following the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Piquet alleged that he had been asked by the team to deliberately crash to improve the race situation for Alonso, sparking an investigation of Renault F1 for race fixing by Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the Formula One governing body. After an investigation, Renault F1 were charged with conspiracy on 4 September, and were to answer the charge on 21 September 2009.
On 16 September, Renault stated that they would not contest the charges, and announced that the team's managing director, Flavio Briatore, and its executive director of engineering, Pat Symonds, had left the team.
On 21 September, it was announced that the Renault F1 team had been handed a disqualification from Formula One. The disqualification was suspended for two years pending any further comparable rule infringements. Briatore was banned from all Formula One events and FIA-sanctioned events indefinitely, whilst Symonds received a five-year ban.Their bans were subsequently overturned by a French court, although they both agreed not to work in Formula One or FIA-sanctioned events for a specified time as part of a later settlement reached with the governing body.
Team's never questioned the SC deployment of procedures because the RD at the time made his decisons based on safety, not fairness or entertainment. Teams trusted the decison and accepted the result.
But when the truth is out lol thats when the Krap hit the fan. I still belive that Abu Dubai is not done one day the truth will be brought to light .
Thats concludes the lesson for the day.
No this does not conclude the lesson of the day.
Due to this race fixing Felipe Massa lost championship points that effected the outcome of the world championship.
Without this he would have won the 2008 world championship and Lewis Hamilton will be a 6 times world champion.
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