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Flavio Briatore has revealed he will not return to Formula 1 for a “long time” despite his lifetime ban being overturned by a French court.

The ex-Renault F1 boss also launched a savage attack on former FIA president Max Mosley, who he blames for his punishment.

Briatore and Renault’s engineering chief Pat Symonds were banned by the World Motor Sport Council for their part in the Nelson Piquet Jr crash scandal at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix which led to team-mate Fernando Alonso winning the race against the odds.

The Tribunal de Grande Instance in Paris lifted the ban after the pair appealed but Briatore, who is expecting a baby boy with model wife Elisabetta, has indicated he is in no rush to return to the sport.

“F1 will be a long time without Briatore,” he said. “I am going to take my time for my paternity.”

He joked that his son would “not be called Max” and added that he hoped that after years of “dictatorship” under a man who he has described as “blinded by a desire for personal revenge”, the sport can finally focus on the action on the track.

“I have thanks for a democratic verdict where legality has been restored,” Briatore concluded. “I hope this is the first step towards a turnaround after years of dictatorship at the will of Max Mosley.

“Mosley likes to punish people – he has done it a lot in his private as well as his public life. For a long time I tried to contribute to Formula 1. If we arrived at this situation, it is because we created FOTA [the Formula One Teams’ Association] and somebody lost their head.”