The Italian businessman Flavio Briatore – former team leader of several Formula One teams, including those with which both the German Michael Schumacher and the Spanish Fernando Alonso celebrated the World Cup – announced this Thursday that he has undergone successful surgery for a benign tumor in the heart, for which he has already received a medical discharge, and took advantage of his experience to encourage medical prevention.
The former team leader of Benetton – with which the ‘Kaiser’ celebrated two of his seven titles – and Renault – with which the Asturian double world champion celebrated his own – in Formula One underwent an operation performed with endoscopy ago. ten days in the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, as he explained with a video on his Instagram profile.
“Hello everyone. Today I want to talk to you about prevention. 10 days ago I went to the San Raffaele hospital for a check-up and at that moment they found a benign tumor in my heart. The doctors intervened immediately and I am here, telling you about it,” he explained.
Briatore, 73, with whom Alonso celebrated his titles in 2005 and 2006 – with Renault -, took the opportunity to recommend medical prevention to his followers.
“The main thing, guys, is to do prevention, the check-up, every year. I did it two years ago and I did not have this benign tumor and this year I did. We must not neglect ourselves, prevention is essential,” he recommended.
