Flavio Briatore
Flavio Briatore
Flavio Briatoreis an 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 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...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth12 April 1950
CityVerzuolo, Italy
dominate dream job race shown shows speed weekend
To come here this weekend and dominate the race shows we have done the job right this year. We have shown speed and reliability. This is a dream team.
accidents catch difficult everybody fantastic flying focused great happen hard job needed perfect pushing saw stay stops strategy team until
This was a very difficult race, and Fernando has got another fantastic result. The whole team did a great job, with some perfect stops and the strategy was what we needed. Everybody did a great job today. Fisico was pushing hard and really flying when he crashed. I think he did a great job too, but sometimes accidents happen - as we saw with Montoya as well. Fernando did the job he needed to, and now I think it will be difficult for Raikkonen to catch him; but the constructors' championship is much closer, and we will stay focused on that until the end.
certain conditions false five formula french honda information jobs leave press stay
I have read in the French press that Renault is going to leave Formula One. These journalists need new jobs - they had false information which they disseminated everywhere. Renault want to stay in Formula One under certain conditions which is the same as Mercedes, BMW, Honda and Toyota. Five us want certain conditions.
bad best blood boiling both crazy drive ferrari forgets formula great ice inside job limited michael possible potential promise public schumacher seven smiling
I don't think Michael Schumacher forgets how to drive a formula one car. It is just Ferrari having a bad year. Michael does the best possible job with a limited car. But I think Fernando can be as great even if Michael already has seven championships - a crazy number. Fernando has the potential to do that because he is made to be a champion. He is also much calmer than Schumacher. Forget what you see in public - where Alonso is smiling and Schumacher is concentrated. I know them both very well and I promise you Fernando has the ice in his blood - more than Michael, who is boiling inside with feeling.
playing racing
We were racing for a World Championship, we weren't playing around,
suicide
It would be suicide to have two championships.
chance great minimal valentino
It would be great to have Valentino in F1, but he wouldn't have even a minimal chance of winning,
less spectators walk
We have spectators walk away from television. In the meantime, we have less spectators in the grandstands.
annoyed bit obviously
I was obviously a bit annoyed at this.
emotions formula happened needed thinking
I don't know what happened, the emotion. Like Fernando said before, he was thinking about what happened in 2005. I was thinking about what happened in my 15 years of Formula One. I think I needed some privacy,
basically believe close commercial happen maybe next quite week
I believe we are quite close to a commercial deal, to finalize it with Bernie. We are basically agreed. Something will happen maybe this week or next week, but on the commercial part I believe we are very much in agreement.
bmw certain f1 false french heard information major stay
I have heard what the French journalists have said and they need a new job. It is false information that they have disseminated everywhere. Renault want to stay in F1 but only under certain conditions, like the other major manufacturers Mercedes-Benz, Honda, BMW and Toyota. They all want to see the same conditions.
became champion
Nigel Mansell became champion after he was 40.
conduct directly indirectly involved time
I was at no time directly or indirectly involved in the conduct of these negotiations.