Flavio Briatore
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Flavio Briatore is an Italian businessman, who serves as executive adviser and de facto team principal of Alpine in Formula One. As the longtime team principal of the colloquially known "Team Enstone"
Briatore in 2009
Briatore (right) with Tom Walkinshaw at the 1993 British Grand Prix
Briatore with Giancarlo Fisichella (left) and Fernando Alonso (right) after their 1–2 finish at the 2006 Malaysian Grand Prix
Briatore in 2008
The Renault Formula One crash controversy, dubbed "Crashgate" by some in the media, was a sporting scandal caused when Renault F1 driver Nelson Piquet Jr. deliberately crashed during the 2008 Singapor
Flavio Briatore
…2007 "Spygate" affair, although in both cases his teams escaped penalties. He was forced out of Renault and received a lifetime ban from F1 after the 2008 "Crashgate" scandal, although a French court subsequently overturned the ban. Fifteen years later, he returned to the Enstone team, which currently operates as Alpine F1…
The wrecked Renault R28 car driven by Nelson Piquet Jr. at the centre of the controversy
Nelson Piquet Jr., December 2007
Alonso on the podium of the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, with Briatore far right (white shirt)
Brazilian Felipe Massa was leading the Grand Prix for Ferrari before Piquet Jr.'s crash