Flavio Briatore has launched a legal action at the Paris Tribunal de Grande to overturn his lifetime ban from FIA Motor Sport after the ‘Singapore-Gate’ scandal. To be honest, it’s a bit of a surprise that it’s taken him this long to appeal the FIA’s decision to effectively ban him from any involvement in FIA […]
Renault gets suspended ban
Renault has received a 2 year suspended ban from F1 over race fixing in the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix. Briatore banned from F1 and Symonds for 5 years. It looks like they got off lightly. The FIA, meeting in Paris today, has handed out a suspended ban from F1 for Renault over the race-fixing debacle and the […]
Renault F1 – Briatore & Symonds resign
Renault F1 boss Flavio Briatore and chief engineer Pat Symonds have resigned over the Piquet accident fixing allegation. Oh, dear. The accident fixing allegations surrounding the Renault F1 team and their former driver – Nelson Piquet Jnr – have rumbled on over the past days, with Briatore declaring he was suing Piquet – and his […]
F1 Budget Cap row over
We haven’t really bothered covering the row going on between FOTA (the F1 drivers ‘Union’) and the FIA (the governing body of the sport) because it all seemed to us to be a storm in a teacup, with both sides posturing and pouting, but neither likely to push things to the point where the money […]
McLaren F1 get three race ban – suspended
McLaren don’t have an easy time of it – but a big chunk of it has been of their own making. They have been pretty well punished for the furore over the Ferrari information they purloined last year, and their relationship with the sport’s governing body has never been great. So there was an expectation […]