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Toto Wolff comments on Flavio Briatore’s return to Formula 1 with Alpine, and says he thinks “everybody deserves the opportunity to come back”.
Last week Alpine announced that controversial former team boss Flavio Briatore will return to Formula 1 as their executive advisor.
The move caused quite a stir in the F1 world, because of Briatore’s involvement in the infamous ‘Crashgate’ scandal, when Renault driver Nelson Piquet Jr. crashed into the wall on purpose at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, to trigger a Safety Car that helped his team-mate Fernando Alonso win the race.
When this was revealed, Briatore received a lifetime ban from Formula 1, which he later overturned in court.
Ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff was asked to give his opinion on Briatore’s return to Formula 1.
“I think we need to give the chance to recover from these situations,” the Austrian said.
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“I have known Flavio as an extremely smart businessman. He has a lot of know-how in Formula 1.
“Every input that I got over the last 10-plus years that I’ve been in much more contact – and I have a friendly relationship with him – was in a way helpful.
“There is a lot of experience and expertise that 40 years of Formula 1 do. And I think everybody deserves the opportunity to come back.
“And for me, for sure, having another clever mind in Alpine, someone that is able to simplify things and apply common sense, is in any case, where Alpine is today, a benefit,” Wolff concluded.
