Flavio Briatore has claimed he played a part in Fernando Alonso’s return to Formula 1 with Renault for next season. After two years away from the grid, competing in other forms of motorsport instead, Alonso is making a comeback for 2021 as the replacement for Daniel Ricciardo at Renault when the Australian moves to McLaren. It will be a third spell with the French manufacturer for the Spaniard, who in his first stint won the World Championship in 2005 and 2006. Team principal at the time was Briatore, the flamboyant Italian who became an F1 villain when it emerged that, in the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, he had been in charge of the Renault team when Nelson Piquet jnr was ruled to have...
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