FIA to appeal Briatore ruling 12/01/2010 |
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The FIA has said it will appeal against a French court’s decision to overturn former Renault boss Flavio Briatore’s lifetime ban from Formula 1.
The sport’s governing body believes an appeal is “merited” and the Italian’s ban from all FIA-sanctioned events has been reinstated while the appeal is active. The five-year ban imposed on Renault’s former engineering director Pat Symonds has also been reactivated.
Briatore and Symonds were banned for their part in the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix race-fixing scandal in which Nelson Piquet Jr deliberately crashed his car to help team-mate Fernando Alonso win the race.
Briatore and Symonds took legal action in October claiming they were not given a fair trial and the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris ruled last week that the FIA’s decision was procedurally incorrect, though it did not exonerate Briatore or Symonds of conspiring to cause the crash.
But new FIA president Jean Todt, who took over from Max Mosley, has decided to appeal that ruling, saying that the governing body “unanimously agreed” that was the best course of action.
“The FIA will take whatever measures are necessary to ensure the continuing integrity and safety of the sport,” it said in a statement.
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