
'Distraught' Briatore may go down the legal route
Tuesday 22nd September 2009
Flavio Briatore has been left 'devastated' after receiving an effective lifetime ban from Formula One, according to reports in the Italian media on Tuesday.
The former Renault team principal received the punishment from the FIA on Monday after he ordered Nelson Piquet junior to crash his car during last year's Singapore GP.
Briatore, along with Renault engineering head Pat Symonds, resigned last week in the wake of the scandal.
"I am distraught," the 59-year-old Italian is quoted in Gazzetta dello Sport.
Reports claim he is planning on launching legal action against the FIA in the Paris courts in an attempt to prove his innocence and win compensation for the damage to his image. He is apparently also considering setting up a rival series to Formula One.
Meanwhile, head of the Spanish motorsport federation Carlos Gracia, who was quite outspoken about the FIA's decision to grant Piquet jr immunity from prosecution, feels Briatore's punishment is "excessive".
"Briatore's (penalty) seems to me excessive, there was no clear proof against him and he was not able to defend himself either," he told Spain's AS paper.
"Moreover, I wouldn't rule out him going to ordinary justice because he has been left without his means of earning a living."
http://www.planet-f1.com/story/0,18954,3213_5575739,00.html
Azotes, te acuerdas de la frasecita de 'han cometido el error de bailar sobre mi tumba antes de enterrarme'. Pues a Flavio lo has debido de incinerar, porque este se te desentierra cual zombi. De aquí a año y medio veo de vuelta a Flavio y al azotes durmiendo entre cartones debajo del puente del reloj de Londres. Y yo seré el primero en irle hacer una visita

Y recordemos que sigue en pie la demanda a los Piquet. Aquí aún no saben a quien le han ido a tocar los webos.