Briatore determined to prove critics wrong
Sunday, November 19, 2006 04:23 [IST]
London: Flavio Briatore is determined to prove his critics wrong
and show that Renault can be a success without their double world champion
Fernando Alonso. The Spaniard has left to join rivals McLaren after helping
Renault to back-to-back driver and constructors' titles.
The maverick team boss insisted that there is “great motivation” as they now
embark on a “new era” without Alonso claiming that Renault were far bigger than
any one driver.
Formula One commentators are predicting a bleak season for the French outfit
without Alonso behind the wheel.
Renault will have to rely on veteran Giancarlo Fisichella, who struggled to
keep pace with his youthful team-mate, and rookie Heikki Kovalainen.
Briatore stressed his loudest critics are the same ones who said we had won
the title in Canada, or that
Ferrari had won by Monza.
The Italian was at pains to stress that those same critics were not looking
at the facts and were in fact seeing 'unknowns'.
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