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- Managing Director Benetton Formula Limited
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- Flavio Briatore, the progressive and imaginative managing
- director of the Mild Seven Benetton Renault team, guided
- the team to their first world championship in 1994 and this
- year will be aiming to emulate that success by claiming
- both the drivers' and constructors' titles.
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- The team's new partnership with Renault and the reliance
- inspired by Michael Schumacher's triumph in the drivers'
- championship will help Benetton further establish their
- reputation as one of the leading teams in the championship,
- according to Briatore.
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- "The big thing in all sport and in all competition is
- confidence." said Briatore, whose innovative management has
- been the key to the team's rapid progress in recent years.
- "We won the drivers' championship last year thanks to
- Michael's brilliant driving, but also to the total
- excellence of the team.
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- "So this year, with that confidence and with the help of
- Renault, I am sure we can go for both championships again.
- We want to win both and I believe it is a realistic target.
- Last year, the team performance was very good - we were
- quick in all the tyre stops and won some races in the
- pit-lane - and our car finished 95 per cent of the races.
- "That is a fantastic record and shows how good the car and
- the team are. This year, we can progress again I am sure of
- it."
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- Briatore will this year be building on the success of 1994
- when, five years after joining the team, he was able to see
- the success of his work in pioneering an entirely unique
- style of thinking about Formula One. His new philosophies,
- global outlook and firmly-held view that Formula One is as
- much about communications, images and lifestyle as
- technology or tradition which all contributed to the
- team's and Schumacher's success. But they represent only a
- part of his overall view. Briatore lives for the future
- with Benetton, placing his faith in youth, strength and
- excitement and a constant search for ways of improvement.
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- "This year our ambitions are clear," he said. "We want to
- try and win both championships. I believe that with the
- Renault engine we can. I have been very impressed with the
- fantastic progress of our partnership with Renault already.
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- "Like us, they are working for the future. They are
- well-invested, they have very good people and they have
- stability. I feel our B195 with a Renauit engine and our
- drivers will be a very difficult package to beat this year.
- It is a combination of champions."
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- Briatore hopes 1995 will see a continuous and virtually
- seamless development of the Benetton team with very few
- outward changes, other than to the car. "Apart from the car
- and the engine, our only other changes will be that we have
- the numbers one and two this year," he said.
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- "We are a young team. We are still learning and last year
- we gained a lot of experience. We will be much stronger
- now. That experience and the confidence of knowing we can
- be champions will be a big help for everyone in every part
- of the team."
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- Italian-born Flavio Briatore lives in London. He leads a
- hectic working schedule of ten hours a day and relaxes by
- working out at a gym, playing tennis, and spending short
- holidays in the sun whenever possible.
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- Source: http://www.jtnet.ad.jp/WWW/MILDSEVEN/F1/