Briartore.. Will Claim 1 Million Pound Damages

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http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/motor-racing/briatore-will-demand-huge-payout-from-f1-1819420.html

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Disgraced former Renault F1 managing director Flavio Briatore has accused the FIA of being 'blinded by an excessive desire for personal revenge' and described Max Mosley as his 'complainant, investigator, prosecutor and judge' as he seeks a minimum of €1 million in damages to his reputation and the overturning of his effective lifetime ban from the sport.

Briatore was outlawed from future participation in any FIA-sanctioned championship and from working with anyone involved in those championships for an unlimited period of time by the FIA World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) back in September, for the leading role he had played in the 'Singapore-gate' race-fixing scandal that rocked the sport and very nearly earned Renault a similar punishment. The Enstone-based outfit's erstwhile executive director of engineering Pat Symonds was for his part banned for five years.

The penalties were meted out after Briatore and Symonds were found guilty of having instructed then Renault driver Nelsinho Piquet to deliberately crash out of the inaugural Singapore Grand Prix in 2008, thereby prompting a safety car period that enabled team-mate Fernando Alonso to vault into the lead from outside of the top ten following an engine failure in qualifying.

The Spaniard subsequently went on to triumph in the top flight's first-ever night race, and whilst there were whispers of foul play at the time, the truth only emerged after Piquet was unceremoniously sacked by Briatore midway through 2009, the catalyst for the young Brazilian and his three-time world champion father Nelson Piquet to blow the whistle on the conspiracy.

Briatore and Symonds both resigned from their respective positions in the days following the explosive revelations, and whilst the Englishman acknowledged that discussions to the effect of causing a deliberate accident had taken place with Piquet, the Italian to this day continues to protest his innocence – and lack of involvement in and knowledge of the plot.

Neither Briatore nor Symonds were present in Paris when the WMSC debated and announced their fate, but both are now set to appeal the verdict in France's high court, the Tribunal de Grande Instance, on 24 November – contending that the investigation and hearing were conducted in improper fashion and against both the governing body's International Sporting Code and French law.

What's more, Briatore argues that he in particular was made a victim of a witch hunt carried out by Max Mosley, who recently stepped down from his long-held position of FIA President and has rarely seen eye-to-eye with the former Formula One Teams' Association commercial development working group chairman, most notably during the bitter FIA/FOTA civil war that rumbled on for much of the summer – a stand-off that almost spawned the formation of a 'breakaway' series and arguably led to Mosley electing not to stand for a fifth term in the most powerful and influential role in international motor racing.

British newspaper The Guardian has published excerpts of leaked documents from the Briatore camp, which refer to what he believed was 'the excessive and abusive power clearly exercised by both the World Council in particular and the FIA in general' and 'the breach by the World Council of the most basic rules of procedure and the rights to a fair trial'.

'The decisions to carry out an investigation and to submit it to the World Council were taken by the same person, Max Mosley, the FIA President,' the statement goes on, adding that Mosley 'assumed the roles of complainant, investigator, prosecutor and judge' – what Briatore claims is an infringement of the European Convention on Human Rights with regard to fair trials.

[Receed R]

i posted this earlier in off topic

[qblockpete]

Flavio is chairman of QPR, therefore on topic

[themodfather]

for now.

[paulmason]

Cant see why he is bothering as he has accepted he done, what they said he done, so the best thing that can happen is his lifetime ban reduced to 1 or 2 years ban, but the fact is he would still have been banned ..............

[Bernie's Barnet]

Cant see why he is bothering as he has accepted he done, what they said he done, so the best thing that can happen is his lifetime ban reduced to 1 or 2 years ban, but the fact is he would still have been banned ..............

I knew you'd be disappointed.

Just think for a moment...if he has acknowledged guilt of the charges, he won't be able to seek damages will he?

[MYU]

I knew you'd be disappointed.

Just think for a moment...if he has acknowledged guilt of the charges, he won't be able to seek damages will he?

I thought you said you were thick???

[Bernie's Barnet]

I thought you said you were thick???

I'd have to be thick to say that.

[paulmason]

I knew you'd be disappointed.

Just think for a moment...if he has acknowledged guilt of the charges, he won't be able to seek damages will he?

He does not want the money, he wants the ban overturned so he can continue with sport, otherwise he is a outcast.

[Bernie's Barnet]

He does not want the money, he wants the ban overturned so he can continue with sport, otherwise he is a outcast.

Told you that personally did he?

[Loneranger80]

what is the latest i believe the FA hearing is in just under 2 weeks?

[Receed R]

Flavio is chairman of QPR, therefore on topic

not really pete

this is discussing something that is related to motor sport therefore off topic

dont be picky now

[wicksta]

Cant see why he is bothering as he has accepted he done, what they said he done, so the best thing that can happen is his lifetime ban reduced to 1 or 2 years ban, but the fact is he would still have been banned ..............

Where has he 'accepted he done what they said he done'?

I MUST OF MISSED THAT (sic)

[paulmason]

Where has he 'accepted he done what they said he done'?

I MUST OF MISSED THAT (sic)

Just type into google 'briatore resigns' and about 1,000,000 web pages appear with information how he quit. I can imagine the first question in the French high court.

Man in wig: Mr Briatore, if you were not guilty of ordering Nelson Piquet Jr. to crash in Singapore, why did yo resign ?

Briatore: Erm, well, hhmm.............

Wednesday, 16 September 2009

Renault says managing director Flavio Briatore and engineering chief executive Pat Symonds are leaving the Formula One team, and that it will not dispute charges that Nelson Piquet Jr. was ordered to crash in a race.

Renault says managing director Flavio Briatore and engineering chief executive Pat Symonds are leaving the Formula One team, and that it will not dispute charges that Nelson Piquet Jr. was ordered to crash in a race.

Renault has been summoned to Paris by governing body FIA to answer a charge that Piquet Jr. was told to crash at last year's Singapore Grand Prix to improve teammate Fernando Alonso's chances of victory. The Spaniard won the race.

Renault today said it "will not dispute the recent allegations made by the FIA concerning the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix."



I don't give to hoots if he wins or loses his appeal, it means nothing to me, but a guiding rule in life is if you cant do the time, don't do the crime.

If you read the basis of his appeal, the fact he was or was not involved in Crashgate is not the issue, it is the ban he is contesting. Renault accepted the charge, so no investigation was needed and as far as the fair trial bit is concerned, he would have had one, if he had no quit.

"Briatore's claim states that "the excessive and abusive power clearly exercised by both the World Council, in particular, and the FIA, in general" and "the breach by the World Council of the most basic rules of procedure and the rights to a fair trial" should annul their original decision.

In addition, Briatore says that Mosley breached rules concerning fair trials that are laid down in the European Convention on Human Rights: "The decisions to carry out an investigation and to submit it to the World Council were taken by the same person, Max Mosley, the FIA president... [Mosley] assumed the roles of complainant, investigator, prosecutor and judge". The former Renault man implicitly suggests that animosity between him and the FIA president over the future of the sport had led to the sanction."