{"id":1284,"date":"2010-01-07T19:05:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T00:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2010-01-07T19:05:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T00:05:25","slug":"worlds-press-considers-defeat-of-crashgate-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/f1-general\/worlds-press-considers-defeat-of-crashgate-bans\/","title":{"rendered":"World’s press considers defeat of crashgate bans"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Italian press saw Flavio Briatore’s victory in the French courts this week as a shot at the heart of the FIA.<\/span><\/h5>\n

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“The governing mechanisms of the FIA have been de-facto suspended, and Mosley’s revenge strategy recognised,” wrote the authoritative sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport.<\/p>\n

Tuttosport, another sports newspaper, said the verdict to overturn Briatore’s lifetime ban for the so-called crashgate scandal “proves” that “Mosley wanted revenge”.<\/p>\n

“He (Briatore) has regained his dignity,” it added.\u00a0 “Briatore is no longer a man impacted by a devastating verdict as a result of perverse accusations.”<\/p>\n

Corriere dello Sport, a Rome based sports newspaper, conceded that 59-year-old Briatore was “responsible for the events of Singapore”, but called his lifetime ban “unacceptable”.<\/p>\n

“Everyone deserves a second chance,” it added.<\/p>\n

La Repubblica, a national broadsheet, said the finding of Paris’ Tribunal de Grande Instance showed that Briatore “deserved a fair trial”, and that the FIA had “no right” to bring down the ban.<\/p>\n

There were different views elsewhere in the world’s press.<\/p>\n

Germany’s Bild newspaper said the French decision was a “Crash for justice”, with “Bandit Briatore”‘s ban overturned on nothing but a “technicality”.<\/p>\n

“Hopefully no-one brings him back into formula one,” read the article.<\/p>\n

Britain’s Independent posed the questions: “If he is innocent, who is guilty?”, and “If a veil can be drawn down over something as sickening as the travesty of sport which occurred at the Singapore grand prix, where can a line be drawn?”<\/p>\n

The Daily Telegraph also finds the outcome of Briatore’s Paris action uncomfortable.<\/p>\n

“The upshot is that … no one has been punished for an act widely considered one of the worst examples of cheating in the history of sport,” wrote Tom Cary.<\/p>\n

The Guardian, meanwhile, ran a poll on its website asking fans whether Briatore escaping crashgate with no penalty is fair.\u00a0 More than 69 per cent answered ‘no’.<\/p>\n

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