Formula 1

9048 readers

113 users here now

Welcome to Formula1 @ Lemmy.world Lemmy's largest community for Formula 1 and related racing series

Rules

Be respectful to everyone; drivers, lemmings, redditors etc
No gambling, crypto or NFTs
Spoilers are allowed
Non English articles should include a translation in the comments by deepl.com or similar
Paywalled articles should include at least a brief summary in the comments, the wording of the article should not be altered
Social media posts should be posted as screenshots with a link for those who want to view it
Memes are allowed on Monday only as we all do like a laugh or 2, but don’t want to become formuladank.

Up next

F1 Calendar

2024 Calendar

Location	Date
🇺🇸 United States	21-23 Nov
🇶🇦 Qatar	29 Nov-01 Dec
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi	06-08 Dec

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Photographer

wes

bwoah

The official F1 website's article on Flavio returning to Alpine doesn't mention that he was banned over his role in Crashgate. It refers to him "vacating his position in 2009 and taking some time out" (www.formula1.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/formula1

15 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not really. "Sold off" implies he sold the whole thing, when in fact he still had a 25% holding, was still CEO and was still very much involved with every big decision.

Flavio and Bernie together owned QPR from 2007 to 2011. They were literally business partners at the point Flavio got his ban and they continued to be after it. I dont know why you are adamant that they didn't have a good relationship.

Anyway, my only real point was that Bernie has done a shit load of dodgy stuff, always will be Mr. F1 and him and Flavio were best buddies. Nothing more.

[–] Rapidcreek -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bernie started by selling motorcycle parts at meets. He ended up building a billion dollar industry. He built it. He didn't have a hundred chimps writing code in the back room. He did it. For that he is owed some respect. Is he eccentric? Sure. Did he do dodgy stuff as you say? Sure. I suppose if you take a review of self made billionaires you'll find those qualities in many of them. As far as Flavio being a buddy, I'm sure he himself questioned that through the years he ran his club in Monaco after he was banned.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Urgh. I have so many things to reply to this I could make it a TED talk.

But let's just say being a Bernie apologist, while denouncing Flavio is just... wild.

[–] Rapidcreek -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If that's wild to you, so is your own ignorance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm the ignorant one? Interesting.

[–] Rapidcreek 0 points 4 months ago

Ha! Too bad you weren't interested previously