“It’s a nice story. But in reality that’s not the case.”
Irvine, who missed out on the world championship to Mika Hakkinen by just two
points in 1999, told the court Moratti punched him two of three times while
he was sitting in the VIP area.
“I was struck by Moratti with two or three punches, I lost my balance and
fell,” he said.
The flamboyant Northern Irishman drove in Formula One between 1993 and 2002,
and since leaving the sport has built up a lucrative property empire.