Op/Ed: Briatore laughs last?

As we reported at F1B today, the first level of French court justice overturned the bans on defamed, former Renault team principle Flavio Briatore and ousted technical director Pat Symonds. The FIA had issued a ban for messrs. Briatore and Symonds for their involvement in the 2008 Singapore crash scandal.

Much has been made of [...]

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FFSA: politics more important than French legacy

Nicolas Deschaux, the boss of the French motorsport federation or FFSA is unhappy at what he suspects are the politics that prevented the French Grand Prix from continuing forward at Flins-Les-Mureaux.

It was announced this week that the process had come to a halt after what Deschaux feels were the wrong approach to the issue by [...]

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N. Technology…did it stand a chance?

N. Technology’s parent company MSC had filed suit against the FIA regarding their selection process for awarding grid positions for the 2010 season. That bid was unsuccessful, as it turns out, to prove any wrongdoing on the FIA’s part. At least the court rejected all points made by MSC.

The argument was over the [...]

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French Grand Prix: Government support?

You can always assure yourself that if it is being done in France it is replete with politics and attacks from all fronts. such is the case with the new Flins-Les-Mureaux foray as it has hit “political problems” according to former driver Alain Prost. Now the Prime Minister says:
“I cannot believe that we [...]

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Ferrari Speak: Continue to seek solution

Ferrari have officially spoken after the French court denied their injunction on the FIA’s new regulation changes for 2010. It seems Ferrari are still looking for solutions via the FOTA organization to next years drastic regulation changes but the under tow here may be the actual frequent and drastic changes the FIA have always [...]

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