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Ecclestone: Briatore ban too harsh

By Jonathan Noble

Thursday, September 24th 2009, 08:11 GMT

Bernie Ecclestone thinks Flavio Briatore's lifetime motorsport ban for race fixing was too harsh - but believes the former Renault team principal could have avoided it by owning up to what happened.

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