 Briatore (left) and Renault dropped Piquet Jr as a driver in August
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Former Renault team boss Flavio Briatore will find out on Tuesday whether his lifetime ban from motor racing has been overturned.
Briatore believes the punishment handed down in September by motor sport's governing body, the FIA, was illegal.
The Italian was banned for his part in Nelson Piquet Jr's crash in the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix to help team-mate Fernando Alonso win the race.
Briatore has also demanded the FIA pay him 1m euros (£895,000) in damages.
The World Motor Sport Council ruled that Renault was guilty of breaking its sporting code, finding "breaches relating to the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix to be of unparalleled severity".
A Renault internal investigation found that Briatore, former executive director of engineering Pat Symonds and Piquet Jr had conspired to cause the crash with no other team member involved.
The FIA gave the team a two-year suspended ban, Briatore a lifetime exclusion from all FIA-sanctioned events and Symonds a five-year suspension, which he has also appealed against.
Neither Symonds or Briatore, who is co-owner of QPR Football Club, attended the original hearing at the Tribunal de Grande Instance, France's high court.
However, their representatives argued that procedures adopted during the investigation were against the FIA's international sporting code.
The FIA agreed not to pursue action against Piquet in return for his role in uncovering the details of the scandal.
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