{"id":5665,"date":"2010-05-24T07:23:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T11:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2010-05-24T07:23:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T11:23:58","slug":"briatore-set-for-fom-role-alongside-ecclestone-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/briatore-set-for-fom-role-alongside-ecclestone-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Briatore set for FOM role alongside Ecclestone &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flavio Briatore&#8217;s visit to the Monaco paddock earlier this month was reportedly part of a plan for the Italian to return to formula one.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Due to the crashgate scandal, the ousted former Renault boss is currently banned from holding a direct operational role in F1 until 2013, and he has ruled out returning as a team boss.<\/p>\n<p>But Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat reports that Briatore, 60, held &#8220;subtle negotiations&#8221; with F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone in Monaco.<\/p>\n<p>The article said 79-year-old Ecclestone is not planning to retire, but does intend to delegate some of his responsibilities and &#8220;sees Briatore as a natural successor&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Turun Sanomat cites British sources as saying Briatore will shortly be responsible for the acquisition of new sponsors with the Ecclestone-led Formula One Management.<\/p>\n<p>The sources said Briton Ecclestone enjoys the negotiations with grand prix hosts, promoters and governments and does not intend to delegate those tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone said last month that his personal friend and business partner Briatore could soon &#8220;take up a role in the promotion of formula one&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And at the height of the FOTA\/FIA political war last year, when the teams were threatening to set up a rival series, departing president Max Mosley said Briatore &#8220;sees himself as the Bernie&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flavio Briatore&#8217;s visit to the Monaco paddock earlier this month was reportedly part of a plan for the Italian to return to formula one.<\/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":[59,5262,252,5261,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665"}],"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=5665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5666,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions\/5666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}