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Eurosport Yahoo - Briatore flies from Singapore to Paris
Amid strengthening speculation that Fernando Alonso is to stay at Renault next year, the Spaniard stayed behind in Singapore this week for a vacation with his team boss Flavio Briatore.
Briatore, 58, was then due to fly to Paris for the French capital's famous Motor Show, after a meeting with the Renault Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn.
"We will talk about our plans for 2009, investment. And the new structure of Renault Sport," the Italian is quoted as saying by gazzetta.it.
Briatore has announced that he will be backed by a new Team Director in 2009.
"I will no longer have a 360-degree role," he said. "I have already identified a director for the daily management of the team, so that I can concentrate on the most important things."
He denied that his interests in football, including co-ownership of the London club Queens Park Rangers, are beginning to overtake Formula One.
"What really matters is Renault," Briatore insisted. "My life is here, football is just a wonderful hobby...." Eurosport
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