• Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Flavio will be remembered for two things;

    1. being a cheater

    2. being a friend of Epstein

    The man is a sleeze.

    Who would you rather be a figurehead of your sport? Flavio or Mario Andretti? F1 did not choose wisely

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      3 months ago

      I mean, his best buddy is the guy who has been in control of F1 for 50 years and is also a known sleeze. The sleeze drips down from the top.

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        3 months ago

        Sure, blame Bernie. He hasn’t had control of F1 for decades.

        Further, I have to point out that Bernie was in control when Flavio got his lifetime ban.

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          3 months ago

          Decades? He he only sold the thing less than a decade ago and is still involved to some degree.

          My point wasn’t to blame him entirely, but to point out the organisation which technically still has him as head is pretty rotten and he always had an extremely close relationship with Flavio.

          Bernie was in control when Flavio got his lifetime ban.

          What lifetime ban? I don’t see a lifetime ban.

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            3 months ago

            Bernie sold off F1 in 2000. He stayed on as an employee.

            Flavio was given a lifetime ban for Crashgate. He took it to court and after a time won a reversal.