{"id":4370,"date":"2010-04-13T06:48:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T10:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4370"},"modified":"2010-04-13T06:40:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T10:40:18","slug":"briatore-admits-no-guilt-as-crashgate-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/briatore-admits-no-guilt-as-crashgate-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Briatore admits no &#8216;guilt&#8217; as crashgate ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Despite the FIA agreeing to end its push to have a lifetime ban re-imposed, Flavio Briatore insists he is not guilty of race-fixing.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>F1&#8217;s governing body on Monday announced that, after talks with the sacked Renault boss as well as &#8216;crashgate&#8217; co-conspirator Pat Symonds, a settlement has been reached to end the scandal.<\/p>\n<p>The FIA said the duo &#8220;expressed their regrets and presented their apologies&#8221;, in return for all legal action being dropped and the bans being effective only until 2013.<\/p>\n<p>But Briatore, who turned 60 on Monday, later clarified that his regret and apology was not an admission of &#8220;personal guilt&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian&#8217;s statement, issued by his lawyers, also insisted that the settlement was not a recognition that the FIA&#8217;s verdict about Nelson Piquet Jr&#8217;s deliberate Singapore crash being true was &#8220;well-founded&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No further comment will be made by Flavio Briatore, who wishes to put behind him this matter and focus on his plans for the future,&#8221; added the statement.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the FIA agreeing to end its push to have a lifetime ban re-imposed, Flavio Briatore insists he is not guilty of race-fixing.<\/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":[3],"tags":[397,5262,5300,252,5261,5340,276],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370"}],"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=4370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4371,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370\/revisions\/4371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}