Briatore to take legal action over lifetime ban

Flavio Briatore will attempt to overturn his lifetime ban from motor sport on Monday by commencing legal proceedings against the FIA.

The former Renault team principal was handed the suspension by the World Motor Sport Council for his part in the Singapore Grand Prix crash scandal of last year.

After taking time to weigh up the matter over the last four weeks, and after Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone suggested he should challenge the decision, Briatore will take his case to the French high court, the Tribunal de Grand Justice in Paris.

Briatore is looking to obtain an order from the court quashing the World Council's decision, as well as damages reported to be in the region of one million euros (£910,000).

"In this case, the FIA has been used as a tool to exact vengeance on behalf of one man," said Briatore in a statement.

"This decision is a legal absurdity and I have every confidence the French courts will resolve the matter justly and impartially."

Briatore is claiming the grounds for his action relate to the FIA's apparent abuse of power and a breach of the rules of natural justice.

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