Briatore ban overturned
January 7, 2010 - 0:0
Former Renault boss Flavio Briatore has had his life ban from motorsport overturned by a French court.
Briatore, 59, was banned by the International Automobile Federation (FIA) in September for his role in a plot to rig the outcome of the 2008 Formula One Singapore Grand Prix.""The court ruled the sanction was illegal,"" the judge told the Tribunal de Grande Instance (TGI) in Paris.
Briatore was awarded 15,000 euros (£13,500) in compensation.
The TGI also overturned the five-year ban imposed by the FIA on Renault's former engineering head Pat Symonds and awarded him compensation of 5,000 euros (£4,500).
(Source: Skysports)