The Football League plan to wait on the outcome of Flavio Briatore’s bid to overturn his lifetime ban from motor racing before taking any action themselves.
The former Renault boss, who is a co-owner of Championship club QPR, will challenge his lifetime ban from motor racing, imposed by the FIA, in a November 24 hearing in the French courts.
Briatore was handed the suspension by the World Motor Sport Council for his part in the Singapore Grand Prix crash scandal of last year and the lifetime ban appears to put him in direct violation of the League’s ‘fit and proper person test’. The Press Association
The Football League is investigating whether that decision affects his involvement in soccer.
“The Football League has noted the decision by Queens Park Rangers director Flavio Briatore to commence legal proceedings against the FIA in the French courts,” the League statement said. “The Football League will now await the court decision before taking any further action.” The Associated Press
The Italian, who claimed at the weekend that the “FIA has been used as a tool to exact vengeance on behalf of one man” and has described the penalty as a “legal absurdity”, will have his case heard on 24 November after a preliminary hearing yesterday found it worthy of full hearing.
The 59-year-old said he had “every confidence” the courts would resolve the matter “justly and fairly”.
Briatore accused the FIA of a “deliberate breach of the rights of the defence”, a “breach of the rules of natural justice” and a “manifest excess and abuse of power”. Guardian.co.uk
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