Alpine confirm Briatore return in Executive Advisor role
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Flavio Briatore is making a return to Formula 1 in an official capacity after the Renault-backed Alpine team announced the Italian businessman as their new Executive Advisor.
  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
    261·
    6 days ago

    Flavio will be remembered for two things;

    1. being a cheater

    2. being a friend of Epstein

    The man is a sleeze.

    Who would you rather be a figurehead of your sport? Flavio or Mario Andretti? F1 did not choose wisely

    • Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz
      71·
      5 days ago

      I mean, his best buddy is the guy who has been in control of F1 for 50 years and is also a known sleeze. The sleeze drips down from the top.

      • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
        23·
        5 days ago

        Sure, blame Bernie. He hasn’t had control of F1 for decades.

        Further, I have to point out that Bernie was in control when Flavio got his lifetime ban.

        • Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz
          52·
          5 days ago

          Decades? He he only sold the thing less than a decade ago and is still involved to some degree.

          My point wasn’t to blame him entirely, but to point out the organisation which technically still has him as head is pretty rotten and he always had an extremely close relationship with Flavio.

          Bernie was in control when Flavio got his lifetime ban.

          What lifetime ban? I don’t see a lifetime ban.

          • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
            43·
            5 days ago

            Bernie sold off F1 in 2000. He stayed on as an employee.

            Flavio was given a lifetime ban for Crashgate. He took it to court and after a time won a reversal.

            • Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz
              5·
              5 days ago

              He stayed on as an employee.

              He wasn’t just some Joe Schmoe employee, he was CEO and still calling all the shots until he actually sold off all his interests in 2017. He still owned about a quarter of it up until then.

              Flavio was given a lifetime ban for Crashgate.

              I was making a joke about the lifetime ban not being very much of a punishment, as he is evidently not lifetime banned.

              • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
                15·
                5 days ago

                Really? Trying to prove something?

                Bernie wasn’t an owner decades ago, so he didn’t have control of the company. That’s simple.

                I missed your “joke”. But, the point is that if they were such good buddies, why did one level a lifetime ban on the other?

                I find that most people don’t know what they are talking about when it comes to Bernie

                • Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz
                  4·
                  4 days ago

                  Not really. “Sold off” implies he sold the whole thing, when in fact he still had a 25% holding, was still CEO and was still very much involved with every big decision.

                  Flavio and Bernie together owned QPR from 2007 to 2011. They were literally business partners at the point Flavio got his ban and they continued to be after it. I dont know why you are adamant that they didn’t have a good relationship.

                  Anyway, my only real point was that Bernie has done a shit load of dodgy stuff, always will be Mr. F1 and him and Flavio were best buddies. Nothing more.