The statement by Bermie Eccelstone that his friend and business partner, Flavio Briatore, had been treated too harshly in the crashgate hearing beggars belief.
Doesn’t Eccelstone have any shame? Or Morals?
Briatore was quite happy to send out a driver to put himself in harm’s way by crashing an F1 car during a race. Worse, he was the driver’s manager, as well as his team boss.
People will say that Piquet could always have said ‘no’.
But when you’re struggling to keep your place in F1, something you’ve strived for most of your life, and the person who has almost absolute control over your future career tells you to do something, it is unbelievably difficult to decline.
And I’ve no doubt that he didn’t give Piquet much choice. That makes Briatore a bully to boot.
He used the influence he had over Piquet’s career to hatch crashgate.
I’ve never liked Briatore, mostly for his completely outrageous (and often inaccurate) comments. He has courted controversy for years.
But crashgate has revealed a side of his character that is contemptible.
And for Eccelstone to encourage him to appeal his sentence puts him right alongside Briatore, in exactly the same category.
The pair of them are contemptible.
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