Flavio Briatore is an Italian businessman. He started his career as a restaurant manager and insurance salesman in Italy. Briatore was convicted in Italy on several fraud charges in the 1980s, though the convictions were successively extinguished by an amnesty. Briatore set ...
He was manager of F1 team Benetton in 1990s and Renault team from 2002.
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He is also manager of various F1 drivers, including Mark Webber.
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He has worked with Italian designer Angelo Galosso. Briatore launched Billionaire Couture for men in 2005, designer was Galosso.
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Briatore was son of two teachers. He met Luciano Benetton in stock and after that he moved to USA, where he did PR work for Benetton Clothes. Briatore visited Formula 1 GP first time in 1988 and after while Luciano Benetton hired Briatore to run his F1 team. Briatore won two driver championships with Michael Schumacher (1994, 1995) and one manufacturers championship in 1995. From 2002 Briatore worked as team-boss of Renault (former Benetton) and won both championship and manufacturers titles in 2005 and 2006. Fernando Alonso won the drivers title. For season 2007, Briatore hired young Finn Heikki Kovalainen to pair with experienced Italian driver Giancarlo Fisichella.
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Daughter Leni, was born on May 5, 2004, in New York. Her mother is model Heidi Klum.