Flavio Briatore
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"Flavio Briatore" is an Italy/Italian businessman. He started his career as a restaurant manager and insurance salesman in Italy. Briatore was convicted in Italy on several fraud charges in the 1980s, though the convictions were successively extinguished by an amnesty. Briatore set up a number of successful Benetton Group/Benetton franchising/franchises as a fugitive in the Virgin Islands and the United States. In 1990, he was promoted by Luciano Benetton to manager of the Benetton Formula One racing team, which became Renault F1 in 2002. From 2007 to 2010, he was part-owner and chairman of London's Queens Park Rangers F.C.. On 16 September 2009, Briatore was forced to resign from the ING Renault F1 team due to his involvement in Renault Formula One crash controversy/race fixing at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix. After the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) conducted its own investigation, Briatore was banned indefinitely from any events sanctioned by the FIA, although this ban was later overturned by the French Tribunal d'instance/Tribunal de Grande Instance.

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So when Fernando got alongside him, he didn't fight his team mate. It is not about team orders, it is about working as a team.

Alonso could have attacked Montoya at the end, but he could have also lost everything. We haven't won anything yet.

We have spectators walk away from television. In the meantime, we have less spectators in the grandstands.

Today we confirm everything.

It will be difficult for Raikkonen to catch him.

The relationship between us and Giancarlo is fantastic.

It would be suicide to have two championships.

He is incredibly cool. Not emotional, no mistakes, always thinking. I always believed the brain is important in any business, including driving the car.