“Something is very clear, (Renault chief executive) Luca de Meo never wants to sell the team. Question finito.”
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Flavio Briatore
Flavio Briatore is an Italian businessman, who serves as executive adviser and de facto team principal of Alpine in Formula One. As the longtime team principal of the colloquially known "Team Enstone", Briatore led the team to three World Constructors' Championship and four World Drivers' Championship victories. However, he was dogged by allegations of cheating, including the 1994 "Launch Control"…
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business · Italian businessman (born 1950) · entrepreneur · sports agent · manager · also Flavio Briatore, Briatore
Born 12 April 1950 · Q173169
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2026· 7 entries
“I was just trying to save the team.”
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GPFans: Flavio Briatore delivers verdict on Aston Martin dream team: 'The results are lagging behind'
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SPEEDWEEK.COM: Flavio Briatore’s radical proposal: sprints at every GP weekend
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Yahoo Sports: Should F1 follow Flavio Briatore's call for more Sprint weekends?
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GPFans: F1 star calls boss Flavio Briatore an 'animal' as team expectations revealed
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Alpine's minority owners, the Otro Capital syndicate led by Alec Scheiner, discussed selling their 24-percent stake
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Flavio Briatore takes on Alpine F1 team lead duties as Colapino replaces Doohan
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2024· 1 entry
After Rai 2 had bought the rights to the show, but due to various dilemmas with the broadcaster and Rai's continuous loss of programs, the move was cancelled indefinitely
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2021· 1 entry
The government sold the yacht to Briatore's friend Bernie Ecclestone for €7 million, which Briatore claimed was less than half its true value
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2019· 1 entry
Briatore founded the political party Movimento del Fare
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2012· 1 entry
The Guardian: Gianni Paladini denies Flavio Briatore involved in Birmingham takeover
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2011· 2 entries
The Guardian: Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore condemn 'insulting' offer for QPR
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The Guardian: QPR co-owner Flavio Briatore says club 'completely trust' Neil Warnock
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2010· 6 entries
The Guardian: Flavio Briatore case sees Football League fail its own test
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The Guardian: Marcello Lippi is ideal coach for QPR, says Flavio Briatore
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A Turin court ordered Briatore rehabilitated, which by Italian Criminal Code results in the extinction "of any criminal effect of the conviction"
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“Italy has never helped me ... and it doesn”
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The Italian government seized the yacht over a tax dispute
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Epstein told Peter Mandelson that Briatore wanted to sell his Chelsea triplex residence, after which Briatore requested to meet with Epstein again
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2009· 1 entry
Seal announced that Briatore gave consent for Seal to adopt the five-year-old Leni and for her surname to be changed to Klum
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2005· 1 entry
Briatore requested to meet with Epstein during a trip to New York City
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2003· 1 entry
Dropped future world champion Jenson Button to make room for future two-time world champion Fernando Alonso
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2000· 1 entry
Renault announced its plans to return to Formula One with the purchase of the Benetton Formula team
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1999· 1 entry
The Corriere della Sera reported that Briatore had been arrested in Nairobi on suspicion of fraud relating to real estate in Kenya
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1998· 1 entry
And owned a club in Sardinia; in August 2012, he opened another Billionaire club in Marbella under that name along with an haute couture line, Billionaire Italian Couture
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1997· 1 entry
Benetton replaced Briatore with David Richards
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1996· 1 entry
But after failing to sell it to British American Tobacco as he had hoped, he sold out to fellow owners Giancarlo Minardi and Gabriele Rumi
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1993· 3 entries
Until Frank Williams "listen[ed] to [him]" on costs
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Used his leverage to force the then-dominant Williams team to agree to limits on engine changes and qualifying procedures
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An explosive device destroyed the front door of Briatore's London mansion
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1992· 2 entries
The team moved to a new facility at Enstone, Oxfordshire, where it remains to this day
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And 1993, and claimed the World Drivers' Championship in 1994 and 1995
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1991· 1 entry
And eventually acquired a 30% personal stake in the team
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1990· 1 entry
Byrne, Symonds, and 11 other engineers quit en masse to join the abortive Adrian Reynard F1 project
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1989· 1 entry
The Benetton family reassigned him to manage the team's commercial operations
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1986· 1 entry
A court in Milan found Briatore guilty of fraud and conspiracy; he helped a ring of confidence tricksters that recruited gamblers to play rigged card games
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1985· 1 entry
The Benetton family purchased Formula One team Toleman Motorsport, which it then renamed to Benetton Formula
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1984· 1 entry
A court in Bergamo found him guilty of fraud arising from the collapse of Milan's Compagnia Generale Industriale
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1979· 1 entry
Appointed Briatore to lead the group's American operations
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1950· 1 entry
Born 1950-04-12.
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