Comments on: F1 links: Briatore on Piquet

By: The Limit

The Limit — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:32:51 +0000

My opinions on Piquet Jnr may well be heavily clouded by
my deep distrust and dislike of his father. And no, I am not a Nigel Mansell fan!
As for Flavio Briatore, his recent verbal attack on Jenson Button is as pathetic as the performance of the Italian’s team as of late. This is, ofcourse, the same
Flavio Briatore who allowed Jenson Button the privelege of racing his Benetton racing cars years ago. That is, ofcourse, until Briatore attained Fernando Alonso’s
services.
Briatore was spot on for going with Alonso, and has the trophies and the millions in the bank to prove it.
What rankles me is that a ‘true sportsman’ would not begrudge a former employee his or her moment of success.
It seems that those who delight in the difficulties of others find it alot less amusing when they prosper, at their expense ofcourse.
I recently, on hearing of Ron Dennis’ departure from F1, casted my mind back to Brazil 2007. On witnessing Kimi Raikkonen win his first world championship, at the
painfull expense of his own team, in a season rought with scandal and accusation, still found time to
congratulate his former Number One driver!
As Mika Hakkinen put it at Suzuka in 2000, ‘part of being a good champion, and winner, is to be a gracious loser’. As Mika put it ‘you don’t like losing, you just except that your efforts were just not good enough’.
God do I miss the times when this sport permitted the
presence of real men!

By: leo

leo — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:34:20 +0000

I GO W/ AARON,ON BRIATORIE,SINCE HE’S NOT ON EARTH LET HIM STAY
UP THERE TILL SEASON END. LEO

By: Aaron Shearer

Aaron Shearer — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:11:51 +0000

I’m really confused about the fuel situation. Doesn’t the FIA weigh the cars after the Qualification? So how on earth can Alonso have possibly have had the same fuel load as Button.

I agree with Ross Brawn, he does need to change his medication and come back down to earth …

By: Tengil

Tengil — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:32:18 +0000

If you believe in something hard enough, it will come true.
Flavio lacks some of the filters the rest of us has between the brain and the mouth.

By: SamS

SamS — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:25:29 +0000

Briatorie is a Fool. Case closed.

By: 159Tom

159Tom — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:12:20 +0000

The Renault looks better with its nose ripped off. But not “really good”.

I thought they missed a trick by calling Alonso in before the “start”, instead of letting him race up front – even just for 2 or 3 laps.

Piquet will get “a normal race” when (if) he stops getting knocked out of qualifying…same applies to Nakajima.

By: John H

John H — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:36:40 +0000

Fernando was second on Saturday and we saw we had the same level of fuel as Button.

What is this mad man talking about??

By: PJA

PJA — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:04:10 +0000

It looks like the cracks are starting to appear in FOTA with Briatore throwing a tantrum because Renault aren’t at the front. I liked this quote from Ross Brawn

When asked at Shanghai if he had a message for Briatore, Brawn cheekily replied: “I think change the medication!”

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/74600

By: ajokay

ajokay — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:43:40 +0000

Millions of them… Euros (or Dollers or Pounds). From Daddy Piquet.

Certainly what he misses in talent, he can make up for in monies.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:03:53 +0000

The difference here is Honda probably told FOM that they were pulling out of F1. It wasn’t just a normal change of ownership like we’ve had in the past.