7 Jan 2010

Briatore says he's not interested in returning to Formula One

6:55 am on 7 January 2010

The former Renault team boss Flavio Briatore says he has no desire to return to Formula One despite his life ban from the sport being overturned by a French court.

He was banned in September, for a plot to rig the outcome of the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix by staging a deliberate crash but the court the punishment was illegally imposed by the sport's governing body, the FIA.

Briatore says he simply wants to spend more time with his family.