Flavio Briatore, the disgraced former Renault team principal, will claim that Max Mosley was "blinded by an excessive desire for personal revenge" when he appeals against his life ban from motor sport next month.

The World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) banished the Italian from Formula One for his part in the "Crashgate" scandal. Briatore is ready to fight to save his career in sport by launching a multimillion-pound action against the ban from Formula One and is demanding damages from the FIA, Formula One’s ruling body, and a complete dismissal of its punishment.

The Italian is furious that he was found guilty of instigating the affair that led to Nelson Piquet Jr purposely crashing at last year’s Singapore Grand Prix to help his team-mate, Fernando Alonso, to win the race. Briatore says in documents seen by The Guardian newspaper that the FIA’s judgment was “a legal absurdity” and used as “a tool to exact vengeance on one man”, as well as a “manifest excess and abuse of power”. Briatore did not take the opportunity to defend himself at the original FIA hearing.

Reports this morning suggest that Briatore will ask for a total annulment of the FIA's instruction to its members not to have any dealings with him and demand damages of just over £900,000 when his case is heard at the Tribunal de Grande Instance on November 24.

Pat Symonds, Renault's former executive director of engineering, also implicated in the "Crashgate" scandal, is reported to be considering joining Briatore's appeal in an effort to have his five-year ban overturned.

"The decisions to carry out an investigation and to submit it to the World Council were taken by the same person, Max Mosley, the FIA president," Briatore is reported to have said in a statement. It added that Mosley "assumed the roles of complainant, investigator, prosecutor and judge" in what Briatore claims was a breach of the "most basic rules of procedure and the rights to a fair trial".

Briatore's claim that the FIA World Council, chaired by Mosley, was "blinded by an excessive desire for personal revenge" stems from his involvement in plans for a breakaway series, an issue that rumbled on through much of last season before an agreement was reached for manufacturers to stay in Formula One.