F1 Fanatic

Basically during the build-up to the monaco grand prix, the BBC filmed a section for Top Gear, which involved driving Bernie, Briatore, and Horner, around the track. [I suspect Briatore was looking out for good places to bring out a safety car, but of course that is quite easy at Monaco...] Anyway, I personally think it is pretty awful that a man who is still serving a ban from working in the sport, for the worst example of cheating in F1 recent history, has been given a public platform as big as the BBC. Remember the BBC sell the program all over the world. It will be watched by millions, many of them unaware of Briatore’s past.

What are people’s thoughts? Is it appropriate that a man serving a ban should be included on the show? Or am I overeacting?

I have submitted some feedback to the tog gear program, to express my distaste. If anyone feels similarly inclined, take two minutes to write at this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/

haha very good, i’ve changed that!

Oh was that Flavio was it? It looked to me like someone who had eaten Flavio! with his massive pork chop jowls and hams for hands, no it didn’t offend me, it made me laugh seeing him and May crammed into that little car (cut to Hammond and Horner with all the space in the world in theirs)with a look on his pudgy face like he had trapped wind which was probably from the Piquet pie he’d just finished before getting into the thing!

I don’t quite understand what the point in that feature was at all. I dislike Ecclestone just as much as Briatore so I was annoyed to see both of them being celebrated by the BBC

As much as I dislike Briatore, his suspension from F1 is hardly a reason for him not to appear on television.