Curbed (Free subscription) | yesterday
Formula One racing magnate and serial supermodel dater Flavio Briatore has PriceChopped his One Beacon Court penthouse. He first listed it for $25 million more than a year ago, but it is now only $23 million (trendy zebra-patterned furniture not included). For those looking at the rental end of things instead, his Plaza apartment is also on offer for $65,000 a month. [Cityfile]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... in 2008, tactically advantaging Alonso who went on to win the race. Team principal Flavio Briatore and Renault's executive director of engineering Pat Symonds resigned in the aftermath of this episode. Meanwhile, in the aftermath of Toyota's decision to withdraw from formula one with immediate effect, the BMW Sauber team is waiting to hear from the sport's governing body what procedures...
Europe Insight (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... dollar sums for a place at motor sport's top table. A high-profile scandal involving Flavio Briatore, Renault's former F1 chief, who ordered one of the team’s drivers to crash on purpose also hasn't helped.
Rediscover Formula One (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... might be Renault who havent been able to rescue their team after the controversy regarding Briatore and Symonds. Even Fernando Alonso couldnt rescue the Renault F1 team. In this situation pulling out of the sport might just be the best (and only sane) option available to them. An official statement from the Toyota team read : TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) announces it plans to withdraw...
CBS SportsLine.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
PARIS -- Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn says the automaker will announce whether it will stay in Formula One racing before the year ends. Asked Thursday if Renault plans to pull out of the sport, he said the company will announce its "strategy in terms of Renault's role in Formula One" before 2010. Renault's reputation was recently damaged by a crash scandal that led to team principal Flavio Briatore's...
Formula 1 Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... in which it was drawn into the hugely damaging race-fixing scandal that saw team principal Flavio Briatore and director of engineering Pat Symonds banned from the sport. The Renault team also received a ban, suspended for two years, as punishment. However, the FIA’s leniency on that occasion is believed to have been partly down to assurances from Renault that it would stay in the sport....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
A pair of shared penalties means QPR have taken a single point from two home matches in the space of four days, but this single point is enough, with their superior goal difference, to lift them four places and into the play-off positions. This London derby pitted the haves against the have-nots – the amassed fortunes of the QPR owners Lakshmi Mittal, Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... ban for its involvement in a race-fixing controversy which resulted in its former principal Flavio Briatore being barred for life. The team won the 2005 and 2006 championships with Fernando Alonso but the Spaniard has now left for rivals Ferrari. Title sponsor ING has also departed, leaving a big hole in the budget. Renault told F1's governing body in September that it wanted to stay in...
Crash.Net (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... near-instant loss of chief sponsor ING and the departure in disgrace of team figureheads Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds – and having endured its least competitive season in seven years, with lead driver Fernando Alonso now jumping ship to Ferrari for 2010, some have surmised that Renault has little to gain by staying and equally little to lose by leaving.Vatanen – who lost out to divisive...
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The team ended the season racing under a suspended permanent ban for their involvement in a race-fixing scandal which resulted in flamboyant former principal Flavio Briatore being barred for life. They finished eighth overall with no wins this year.
Daily Mail online | Sport (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... simply being an engine supplier or quitting F1 altogether after a tumultuous year that saw Flavio Briatore forced out of the team in disgrace.A decision is not expected from Renault on Wednesday as the company reportedly does not want to distract attention from a publicity event on Thursday at which president Carlos Ghosn will promote the company's efforts at introducing zero-emission vehicles....
The First Post (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... eighth out of ten in the constructors' championship, and they also lost team principal Flavio Briatore and chief engineer Pat Symonds in the wake of the Crashgate affair. Two-time world champion driver Fernando Alonso is also leaving the team to join Ferrari. Should Renault leave the sport entirely, it would be the end of a long and successful history. The team have twice won the drivers'...
Crash.Net (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... by controversy and humiliation, and the departure in disgrace of former managing director Flavio Briatore and executive director of engineering Pat Symonds, both of whom have since been banned from the sport entirely for having ordered Nelsinho Piquet to deliberately crash out of the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix in order to enable team-mate Alonso to triumph in F1's inaugural night race from...
::BROADCATCHING:: (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... governing body after he became embroiled in an embarrassing sex scandal. And this season Flavio Briatore, the chief of the Renault team, was after instructing one of the team’s drivers to crash on purpose.
