Is Flavio Briatore about to be kicked out of QPR?
F1 villain could soon fail the fit and proper person test
A rotund 59-year-old with grey thinning hair and his 29-year-old wife, Italian Wonderbra model Elisabetta Gregoraci. Life, she is not fair.
Unless you have no interest in the sport where they drive around in circles for hours on end in order to sell advertising, you will have heard that Flavio Briatore has stepped down from the Renault F1 team, following the race fixing allegations at the Singapore 2008 Grand Prix.
After Renault bosses announced that the part-owner of QPR is “morally responsible” for an incident which allegedly saw Nelson Piquet Jr massively risk his own safety by deliberately crashing, it looks as if the FIA may throw him out of the sport.
If this happens, he will fail the Football League’s fit and proper person test, which states that a person cannot own a majority interest in a team if they are “subject to a ban from a sports governing body relating to the administration of their sport.”
The knock-on effect for QPR is currently up for debate. The West Londoners would probably miss his commercial nous, new sponsors may be reticent to do business with the club if he stayed. Considering the fact that co-owner Lakshmi Mittal is the second richest club owner in the country, it looks unlikely that the club would be plunged into money problems if the Italian were to depart.
Some fans are suggesting that David Sullivan may wish to pick up Briatore’s share in the club, as the porn baron has admitted he is looking for a ‘new challenge’ in football.
The World Motor Sport Council will meet on Monday to discuss Briatore’s fate.
1 response so far
Phil // September 17, 2009 at 3:11 pm
It’s certainly not fit and proper that he should be able to have a missus like that, good god, what is the world coming to, I mean, look… just look!!
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