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Briatore calls for end to Mosley 'insults'
22 June 2009Flavio Briatore has hit out at FIA president Max Mosley as the row between FOTA and the governing body rages on. With a meeting scheduled to take place between the two parties this Wednesday, Briatore has demanded that Mosley ceases to take the argument to personal levels, claiming the 69-year-old to be in no position to do so.
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| Briatore claims that Mosley's 'personal' attacks must stop |
Last Friday saw FOTA (Formula One Teams Association) shock the motor racing world by announcing it will be launching a breakaway series away from Formula One for 2010 after failing to reach a comprimise with the FIA. With Wednesday's meeting perhaps being the last opportunity for the two parties to strike any form of a deal, Renault boss Briatore stressed that the debate must be kept on a professional note.
"We have tried to compromise, we have opened the door, we have tried everything," claimed the Italian, FOTA's head of its commercial development working group. "We have had the door closed in our face. The agreement has not been done by FOTA, it has been done by the manufacturers." With the five manufacturers of F1 (BMW, Ferrari, Mercedes, Renault and Toyota) acting firmly, Briatore is unsure whether the FIA's World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) will sway any opinions this week: "I don't know, I've no idea...I don't think the World Council will change anything regarding the FOTA teams."
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| Mosley criticized FOTA's use of Briatore's £40m yacht for a meeting in Monaco |
With rumours begining to circulate in the Silverstone paddock at the weekend that an ousting of Mosley could put an end to the dispute, Briatore made strong comments about the man who has been FIA president since 1993. "Max is going personal all the time," Flavio exclaimed.
"I'm too much of a gentleman to go personal. If he wants to go personal, I have a lot to say about Max. He needs to stop insulting people. I don't want to personally describe what Max is because in his private life we have already had a demonstration of what he was in the News of the World.
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| FOTA and the FIA will meet again on Wednesday |
"If he is talking about lunatics and stuff like that, he needs to watch himself, to just do the best job possible for him, the teams and not go personal by insulting me, the people from FOTA and the people from ACEA (European Automobile Manufacturers Association, which includes all works teams in F1 bar Japanese Toyota).
"We want real teams, not empty boxes. We are very curious because Friday was the deadline to announce the teams for the FIA 2010 championship." Briatore's comments reflect the fact that the FIA has delayed publishing next year's entry list whilst it 'asserts its legal rights'. "It was very hard for us to really be ready for Friday," Flavio added. "That was supposed to be the day for the list of the new teams in Formula One. I don't see that list - I am very curious to see that list."
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