The Flav @ 66ème Festival du Cinéma de Venise (photo credit: nicogenin)

Flavio Briatore, the alleged mastermind behind the Renault race fixing scandal, has been cleared to return to F1 as his lifetime ban was overturned by a French court.  Briatore’s supposed next step is legal action against Nelson Piquet Jr., who ratted out Flavio for ordering Piquet to intentionally crash his Renault at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix thereby affecting the outcome of the race in favor of teammate Fernando Alonso. 

Being an eighth french I have to share my utter disgust with this ruling.  If this was any other sport besides F1, I would say there is no way any team would bring him on.  However, with the political circus that is F1 it probably makes him even more desirable.  Hopefully I’m wrong.