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F1: Briatore Court Ruling Due January 5th
Flavio Briatore's legal action against his lifetime FIA ban should be declared on the 5th of January...
SPEED Staff / GMM  |  Posted November 25, 2009   GMM Newswire
Pat Symonds (Right), Renault's former executive director of engineering, was banned by the FIA for five years, while team boss Flavio Briatore (Left) was banned for life. (Photo: LAT Photographic)
The outcome of Flavio Briatore's legal action against his lifetime FIA ban should be declared on the 5th of January, Paris' Tribune de Grande Instance said on Tuesday following a hearing.

The 59-year-old Italian, nor his former Renault colleague Pat Symonds who was banned for five years and is appealing his own penalty, attended the proceedings.

The outcome will have implications for Briatore's role as a co-owner and director of the London club Queens Park Rangers, due to the governing Football League's "fit and proper persons" rule.

As well as the annulment of the ban, he is seeking 1 million euros in damages.

Briton Symonds' lawyer Dominique Dumas indicated that the 56-year-old was under pressure when he earlier accepted some responsibility for Nelson Piquet's Singapore 2008 crash.

"Symonds' responsibility shouldn't be taken for granted," Dumas is quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
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