{"id":1255,"date":"2010-01-06T11:35:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T16:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2010-01-06T11:31:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T16:31:21","slug":"briatore-looks-to-sue-nelson-piquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/briatore-looks-to-sue-nelson-piquet\/","title":{"rendered":"Briatore looks to sue Nelson Piquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Having won his bid to overturn his motor racing ban, Flavio Briatore says it is likely he will now pursue legal action against Nelson Piquet.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 59-year-old Italian has never confessed his involvement in the so-called crashgate scandal, where Piquet was ordered to crash on purpose during the 2008 Singapore grand prix.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Paris&#8217; Tribunal de Grande Instance on Tuesday ruled that there were &#8220;irregularities&#8221; in the FIA&#8217;s decision to expel Briatore, the former Renault team boss, from motor racing.<\/p>\n<p>Asked on Wednesday if he will now sue Piquet, he told La Gazzetta dello Sport: &#8220;Very probably.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t forget the pain I&#8217;ve suffered in a day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the ruling was announced on Tuesday, the FIA said Briatore and Pat Symonds&#8217;s bans would remain in force until all its appeal options were exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>But Briatore vowed to now continue to manage F1 drivers &#8220;like always&#8221;, and warned he may sue Heikki Kovalainen and Lucas di Grassi, who recently ended their ties with the Italian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apart from Heikki Kovalainen and Lucas Di Grassi, my relationship with the other drivers has never changed,&#8221; said Briatore, who also manages the likes of Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now we will look at the situation with lawyers to see if we can take legal action against those who have broken contracts with us,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a9RIF\/GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having won his bid to overturn his motor racing ban, Flavio Briatore says it is likely he will now pursue legal action against Nelson Piquet. \u00a0 The 59-year-old Italian has never confessed his involvement in the so-called crashgate scandal, where Piquet was ordered to crash on purpose during the 2008 Singapore grand prix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[53,3],"tags":[5262,5300,252,285,276,55],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}