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Flavio Briatore legal challenge to FIA ban

Flavio Briatore is launching legal action to get his lifetime ban overturned Flavio Briatore will start legal proceedings in the Paris Tribunal de Grande tomorrow in an attempt to overturn the lifetime ban he received from the FIA for his part in the ‘Singapore-Gate’ race fixing episode, which saw Nelson Piquet Jnr intentionally crashing his car to allow team mate Fernando Alonso to take victory in the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix. Briatore is claiming the life time ban from involvement in any FIA sanctioned Motor Sport – including driver management – is a legal absurdity. And he probably has a point.

Tesla Models S UK price announced

Tesla has opened its first UK car dealership at the Westfield Shopping Centre in White City, London. At the opening of the premises, the American premium electric vehicle manufacturer confirmed its Model S saloon will cost £49,900 in the UK, with delivery of the first cars targeted for the end of March 2014. On Bing: see pictures of the Tesla Model S Find out how much a used Tesla costs on Auto Trader Tesla Motors’ co-founder and chief executive officer Elon Musk was at the event hosted specially for UK customers, and hinted at future plans for the brand in Britain: “Tesla is taking the UK market very seriously, and there are more stores and service centres to come.

Toyota Auris Hybrid in the UK

Toyota are to produce a Hybrid version of the Auris Toyota are planning on building – in the UK – a Hybrid version of the Toyota Auris. This will feature the same Hybrid platform as the Prius, which will give it a 98bhp petrol engine together with an 80bhp electric motor. But because the Auris is smaller than the Prius, and less well equipped, the new Toyota Auris Hybrid will come in at a lower price, which will pitch it below the Honda Insight – a key marketing advantage.