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Briatore accepts ban, out of F1 until 2013

Published Apr. 12, 2010 1:31 p.m. ET

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Flavio Briatore will have no part in Formula One until 2013, after the sport's governing body accepted his offer to end an appeal of his lifetime ban.

The former Renault team principal was sanctioned for ordering driver Nelson Piquet Jr. to crash on purpose. Briatore will also not be allowed to take part in any FIA activities until the end of the 2011 season.

Briatore appealed after a Paris court overturned the ban in January.

FIA said it accepted the offer with its ``best interests'' in mind, and to end the legal disputes which ``are very prejudicial to the image of the FIA and of motor sport.''

Pat Symonds, the Renault team's former chief engineer, received a five-year ban for his role in the crash.