BRAWN: BUTTON IT FLAVIO.Byline: BYRON YOUNG JENSON BUTTON'S boss has hit back at Renault rival Flavio Briatore Flavio Briatore (born April 12, 1950) is an Italian businessman and managing director of the Renault Formula One team. Early life and Benetton career Briatore was born in Verzuolo near Cuneo, Italy, in the Maritime Alps, from a family of elementary school teachers. for vowing to take pounds 30million revenge on Brawn GP in the diffuser row. Ross Brawn Ross Brawn (born November 23, 1954) is a British motorsport engineer. He has worked for a number of Formula 1 teams, latterly as the technical director of the championship-winning Benetton Formula and Scuderia Ferrari teams. He took a sabbatical from the sport in 2006. is furious with the Italian for making their dispute public. Briatore threatened to try to stop Brawn GP getting TV rights money due under its previous name, Honda. He said rival teams need the cash to spend on redevelopment costs because legendary designer Brawn refused to withdraw his controversial double diffuser design. It is the latest in a series of attacks by the Italian on the Grand Prix pacesetters. He slammed Jenson Button as "slow as a milestone" and Rubens Barrichello as a "pensioner PENSIONER. One who is supported by an allowance at the will of another. It is more usually applied to him who receives an annuity or pension from the government. ". Brawn said: "Flavio's great with the one-liners and that is his forte. He is a bit flamboyant, isn't he? "It's a shame he brings those things into the public arena, as it's FOTA (Firmware Over The Air) The process of updating the firmware in cellphones and other wireless handheld devices by an over-the-air code transfer. Bitfone Corporation (www.bitfone.com) pioneered the technology and was acquired by HP in 2007. business. But that's his style. I'd rather not talk about it." Brawn admitted it would take a concerted effort by both sides not to allow the simmering discontent to wreck the new Formula One Teams Association. "Things should be OK if we are mature and adult about it," he said. "We have to learn to fight on the track, and if necessary fight in the courts over the technicalities of the cars as that's part of it but then have a strong organisation outside of it." Rival teams were happy to see the rules bent to help the F1 minnows emerge from the ashes of the Honda debacle - but only until they started getting beaten. CAPTION(S): FURY Ross Brawn |
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