Flavio Briatore was banned for life from Formula 1 after the ‘crashgate' scandal at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, but his lifetime ban was later on reduced, so is the flamboyant Italian set to return to F1? Back in 2008, when Briatore was team principal at Renault, his driver Nelson Piquet Jr. crashed heavily at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix prompting the safety car to be released which played in the hands of his teammate at the time, double champion Fernando Alonso, who went on to win the race. To cut a long story short, Piquet Jr. revealed – after being sacked from the team in 2009 – that he was ordered by his team boss and then executive director of engineering Pat...
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