Sep.15 Flavio Briatore says he was 'furious' when he realised just a few months ago just how far Formula 1's Enstone based team had fallen. The 74-year-old Italian guided the team to world championship glory no less than four times – twice with Michael Schumacher as Benetton in the mid-90s, and again with back-to-back glory with Fernando Alonso at the wheel of the works Renault a decade later. 'Formula 1 has changed in quantitative terms compared to the past,' Briatore, recently installed as a powerful F1 advisor to Renault CEO Luca de Meo, told La Gazzetta dello Sport in Baku. 'In terms of numbers, costs, number of races, yes. The public has changed, the perception in the United...
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