Flavio Briatore admits there was no love lost between himself and Ron Dennis during his tenure in F1, the Italian underlining the former McLaren boss' ever-present arrogant attitude and the two men's very different backgrounds. Briatore arrived in F1 in the late 1980s as fashion brand Benetton's man marketing man but without any knowledge of the sport. Yet the Italian was quickly promoted by Luciano Benetton to the helm of the latter's outfit, successfully turning the outfit's fortunes around and delivering two world driver titles to Michael Schumacher in 1994 and 1995. Briatore repeated the feat with Fernando Alonso in 2005 and 2006 after Benetton had been sold to Renault. Briatore:...
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