I wish Briatore had the same passion for QPR !

The dispute intensified over the course of the British Grand Prix weekend, with Mosley describing a certain element within FOTA as "loonies". He in particular claimed that Renault team boss Briatore wanted to be the new Bernie Ecclestone by taking control of the sport.

Briatore made an angry response, warning Mosley not to drag the row down to a personal level and referring to newspaper allegations about the F1 chief's private life.

"Max is going personal all the time. I'm too much of a gentleman to go personal." Briatore said.

"I don't want to personally describe what Max is because in his private life we have already had a demonstration of what he was in the News of the World.

"If there is somebody who needs to be very quiet in their personal life, it's him."

Briatore, who arrived at Silverstone in a helicopter with Mosley and Ecclestone, jokingly remarked that "everybody had a parachute".