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Mischief making?
Coming, as he did, from the Benetton clothing empire, Flavio Briatore was always going to stand out alongside the numerous 'grey' team bosses and team principals that inhabited the F1 paddock when he entered the sport in 1988. Over the years that followed, the ever-controversial Italian was forever in the headlines becoming one of the sport's key players and close friend and ally of Bernie Ecclestone. His risk taking went a step too far after it was revealed that under his leadership Renault fixed the result of the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, Nelson Piquet deliberately crashing in a bid to aid teammate Fernando Alonso. Banned from the sport for his role in the scandal, the Italian...
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