The Man Formula 1 BANNED For Life

The cheeky explanation of the “traction control“ got me, F1 engineers are simply insane.

My dad did some work at the Benneton wind tunnels when they were built in the 90s. Apparently Flavio insisted that all the fire extinguishers be replaced because he didn't want any 'Ferrari red' in his building!

Flavio really went full corporate mode in a sport full of engineers

Briatore had an interview a few years ago, where he stated that he felt he had no choice but to cheat in 2008 in order to stop Fernando leaving the team. There was a clause in his contract that meant he could leave the team (for Ferrari as that’s what was circulating on the rumour mill) should he not win a race in 2008. Time was running out, and Singapore was a new race, so much easier to disguise an intentional crash. Behold, crashgate. Just irony that Alonso won completely fairly in Fuji 2 weeks later 😂

I did not know Piquet literally practiced the crash...unbelievable :D.

I love the loop holes the teams manage to find, just shows how clever the engineers are.

I met Briatore in Indianapolis at the hotel where most of the teams were staying during the weekend of the infamous 2005 Grand Prix. As you say he is a very charismatic character. You may even say he is a prime example of why some people are able to pull success out of the air through nothing but charisma. On the same night, after qualifying, I saw an obviously very drunk Kimi Räikkönen staggering through the hotel lobby with a minder doing his best to keep Kimi going in a straight line. This was the point when for me it was confirmed the race was going to be a bit odd.

Please do a full interview with that guy who talked about the traction control. He is extremely knowledgeable and explained it very clearly while still being technical

this was a brilliant vid... piquet's precision in his practice for the crash is insane just shows how skilled f1 drivers are.

Banned for life Currently Fernando’s manager and regularly attend F1 races. Also hanging out F1 boss.

Great video. About the last part of the video: Briatore is still in formula one: he's an advisor for the commercial parts of F1 and still work for F1 commodities, organization of parties, celebrations etc. Never forget that the Singapore crash was not organized alone: Pat Symonds was involved, and obviously is still here too...

The interview with Willem Toet was brilliant, more of him please!

you should invite Sir Willem Toet to contribute to videos again and again,I can listen him for hours :) I wish he was my teacher at school

How is there not a Flavio movie? More of this for sure! Good stuff. Thanks!

I always thought this geezer was well dodgy but his history made him a perfect fit in Formula One, a world in which criminals, liars, cheats and ne’er-do-wells seem to blend in amongst the dedicated and hard working majority.

Please keep making these in depth videos! I was 12 when I first started watching F1 in 2004, I remember how Alonso and Flavio used to celebrate victories. I didn't understand most of what happened back then. Your video has made me revisit those memories but this time I could comprehend what had happened back then ❤️

The thing that Flavio is most likely behind the Piastri mess makes his story even greater.

This one is great with Toet. There is also a story from Kees van der Grint (Bridgestone at Ferrari during the MS days) where they triggered launch control based on the false start detection loops in the tarmac. Those loops in the tarmac measured the movement of the cars to detect a false start. The engineers figured out the signal on the loops was switched off when the light turned green, so they picked that up and launched the car.

We need longer video formats like this ❤

If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'. I appreciate the findings of gray areas of rules.