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F1: Ecclestone recommended Briatore for Alpine role
Bernie Ecclestone has admitted that it was he who recommended 'bandit' Flavio Briatore to a 'desperate' Renault Group CEO, Luca de Meo. As the French team floundered from one disaster to another, de Meo sought the advice of former F1 supremo, Ecclestone. 'He was desperate,' Ecclestone tells Blick, revealing that the pair spoke on the phone 'for a long time'. 'Then the word Briatore came up,' says Ecclestone, who has been a friend of Briatore from the time he first entered the sport with Benetton in 1990. 'We quickly agreed that in such a confusing situation only a doer, a bandit among angels, could help. And there are enough saints in the grand prix circus. 'Flavio's great strength has...
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