Briatore responds to Mosley

While Max Mosley and Flavio Briatore no longer have the place they occupied until 2009 in motorsport, they continue to compete through press releases. The case Renault, born from the revelation of Nelson Piquet Jr?s voluntary accident in Singapore in 2008, continues to push the two men to defend their position.

Flavio Briatore, removed from any activity relating to the FIA ​​in September by the FIA ​​World Council, brought the matter before the Paris High Court, considering himself personally targeted by Max Mosley, in a judgment biased and unfair. The verdict will be delivered on January 5 but, in the meantime, Max Mosley judges this attempt to overturn the FIA ​​sanction as “ desperate and incomprehensible ».

The former president of the FIA ​​even thinks that Briatore's legal counter-attack only serves to “ distract attention from his key role in one of the worst examples of the dangerous nature of deliberate cheating in the history of sport. » The Briton, for the occasion, did not mince his words.

Flavio Briatore responded to Max Mosley, expressing his astonishment at such a verbal outburst. “ It is difficult to know whether Mr. Mosley has thus lost his cool while awaiting the decision to be rendered by the French court or, after losing his place as an influential person in motorsport, he is just eager to regain media exposure by making provocative attacks against me », declares the Italian.

« Whatever the answer, it is quite curious to hear Mr Mosley say that the FIA ​​made a fair decision against me, following a fair legal process. I would have been happy to hear Mr. Mosley explain what he expressed to me by telephone on September 19, 2009, namely that my presence at the World Council hearing on September 21 was neither necessary nor desirable. , in the context of a difficult season for Renault, while this hearing, in any event, would not have had any influence on the decision taken against me. »

Following the complaint filed by Flavio Briatore, to annul the sanction imposed by the FIA, the Paris High Court must deliver its judgment on January 5, 2010.