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

You won’t see a better video than this all week ever

This is Heidi Klum, the German supermodel and former WAG of QPR owner/ Renault F1 team head honcho Flavio Briatore. She really loves Guitar Hero. And Risky Business. And showing us her underwear. That is all.

[Video comes courtesy of your favourite motor sport website, Grid Crasher. Visit them for more pics of Heidi.]

West Londoners vastly overestimate value of watching their team

Standing firmly on the side of fans who are tired of being ripped off at stadia up and down the country, Derby County, have refused to accept a ticket price hike imposed by QPR for their visit to Loftus Road on September 27:

The club said a pre-season price of £30 for adults and £20 for concessions had been agreed but had been sent tickets priced £10 above those amounts by QPR.

Club spokesman Matt McCann told BBC Radio Derby: “We think it’s too high and we don’t think that’s fair.

“We have stood our ground and QPR have exercised their right to appeal that to the Football League.”

Regardless of our completely fudged economy, how many Rams fans would be willing to pay out £40 to see a side that has not won a league match on the road since March 2007 (excluding the May 2007 play-offs, that is)?

It’s pretty extortionate for a Championship tie, particularly considering that Manchester Utd are charging £41 for most Premier League away fans who visit Old Trafford this season.

If Derby fans are looking for a way to protest against against Queens Park Rangers’ co-owner Flavio Briatore, perhaps they should pelt him with wet sand, much like disgruntled Italians did when he and his billionaire cohorts recently crossed a Sardinian beach.

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