F1
Flavio Briatore returns to the helm of Enstone 16 years later
© Xavi Bonilla / DPPI
He had left the management of the stable of Formula 1 de Renault On September 16, 2009, just before the FIA ruled on the 2008 Singapore Crashgate case, Nelson Piquet Jr., a short-lived driver for the marque with the diamond logo, had accused his Team Principal and Pat Symonds, Executive Director of Engineering. The Brazilian driver claimed that the two men had asked him to deliberately crash into the wall during the first edition of the night race, in order to help his teammate at the time, Fernando Alonso, to impose itself. Renault did not contest the
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Grumpy Dede
08/05/2025 at 09:48 a.m.
How sad for your great nation to have found no one to lead Renault other than De Meo and that scum Briatore for Alpine, he's sure to screw everything up. And to think he was banned from F1.
vincent moyet
08/05/2025 at 12:01 a.m.
It certainly didn't fall into his lap by chance. It was what he was looking for to be alone in charge. Crashgate makes us forget that he bought Ligier solely for the Renault engine and then dumped the team; the affairs of banned electronic aids and adulterated fuel in 1994, which led to Schumacher being disqualified, etc. What he's preparing is only in his own interest, there's little doubt to have.
DOG
07/05/2025 at 11:39 a.m.
Let's not forget that he didn't know anything about motorsport before BENETTON called him to turn around his F1 team in 1989.
gossip
07/05/2025 at 10:30 a.m.
This guy is brilliant but he also has things that are a little less Catholic at the moment, it's current, personally I wouldn't want him as Pope.
Yves-Henri RANDIER
07/05/2025 at 07:10 a.m.
More than the 2 titles won with Fernando Alonso, Brille A Tort will forever remain the man of Crashgate and a cheat before the eternal. Now that he is alone at the helm ofAlpine F1, who will he be able to fire if the team doesn't move up the rankings in the 2025 season? We can already see that he's already a little worried, feeling obliged to point out that he greatly admires De Meo, just to stroke his fur (to be polite)...