The former Renault boss Flavio Briatore could not accept the penalty imposed by the FIA on the race fixing scandal was doing with Pat Symonds, last season. For that, Briatore reportedly ready to take legal action to free him from punishment.
Briatore's got a very severe punishment, which is banned in the racing world for his whole life, while Symonds got sanctions ban only for five years. The FIA imposed sanctions after they proved to instruct Nelson Piquet hit the wall in order to let his team mate Fernando Alonso to appear as a winner in F1GP Singapore, last season.
In response to this decision, of course Briatore disappointed, “I am very disappointed with this decision,” he said to La Gazzetta dello Sport on Wednesday (23/9/2009) also as recorded at f1dv.com.
On this penalty, some sources said that Briatore plan to against the FIA in the high court in Paris. This way was taken by Briatore to prove if he was not entirely innocent, and improve the bad image has been formed in the community about him.
Entire life banned given to Briatore by FIA was considered to be too heavy. This also made directly Carlos Garcia, head of the Spanish Motorsport Federation also FIA motorsport council members.
“For me the Briatore penalty was too severe. There was no clear evidence against him and he was also unable to defend themselves,” said Garcia as recorded at f1dv.com.
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