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Flavio Briatore's Jaguar XJ220 on sale
An unusual find on the used-car scene is this Briatore-owned Jaguar XJ220 on sale. According to reports from Autoblog.nl, a German dealership specialising in used luxury cars is selling this 1994 Jag, one of the last XJ220 models to have been made as production stopped that same year.
According to the report, the model was once part of Flavio Briatore’s car collection. For now its has 22,000 km on the clock from its 3.5-litre V6 twinturbo engine with 550 hp. That made it one of the fastest cars around at the time, reaching 100 km/hr in 3.9 seconds and having the highest top speed of a production car at 354 km/hr (before the McLaren F1 appeared).
Briatore banned for life from F1, Renault permanent ban postponed for two years
Flavio Briatore has been banned for life from Formula 1 after the scandal involving the Piquet crash of last year, with the former Renault team manager banned from any contact with teams or drivers, and prevented access to any operative areas of F1 races. Technical director Pay Symonds gets a five year suspension, while drivers Alonso and Piquet junior have escaped sanctions.
Renault itself is facing permanent exclusion from Formula One, but this sentence has been frozen until 2011, meaning that Renault has these two years to get through without any further infringements. Any illegal acts or infringements will result in that permanent ban being executed immediately.
Renault president Bernard Rey has offered his apologies to Formula 1, and has said Renault will take full responsibility, even paying for the investigations carried out by FIA. The effects of this will certainly reverberate in the F1 world, though perhaps the shreds of credibility are slowing being collected and sown back together. Time will tell.
Source | Motorsportblog.it
Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds quit Renault over scandal: breaking news
Flavio Briatore is quitting Renault and Pat Symonds is stepping down too as Renault decides not to dispute claims that the Nelson Piquet Junior was ordered to deliberately crash his Formula One car at last year’s Singapore grand prix.
The crash resulted in Renault’s other driver, Fernando Alonso, winning the race. The high profile figures of Briatore and Symonds have quit before Renault appears in front of the FIA to face the allegations.
The Renault Formula One team has released a statement saying: “The ING Renault F1 Team will not dispute the recent allegations made by the FIA concerning the 2008 Singapore grand prix. It also wishes to state that its managing director, Flavio Briatore, and its executive director of engineering, Pat Symonds, have left the team.
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