Sky say FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem can "regroup" and "take the heat out of" a "fractious situation"
It was revealed on Wednesday that Ben Sulayem had sent a letter to F1 bosses in which he said he would be handing over “day-to-day” matters to the FIA🐷’s director of single-seater racing Nikolas Tombazis.
It comes in the wake of several controversies involving Ben Sulayem, including his reaction to a story claiming Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund had tried too buy F1 for $20bn and the emergence of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:historic misogynistic remarks on a now-archiv🐼ed version of his website from 20 yeaꦉrs ago.
Reflecting on the turn🧸 of events, Sky Sports News reporter Craig Slater said: “This has been a heated situation at the top of world motorsport.&nbಌsp;
“Mohammed Ben Sulayem has been, 🗹in many people’s eyes, a controver🐼sial president.
“He is not resigning, he’s not quitt꧂ing - he is, in effect, taking a 🐻back seat.
“He will still be attending grands prix and h😼e will still be involved in a lot of the bigger decisions. But we’ll hear a little less from him and a little bit more from Nikolas Tombazis.”
Slater d𒐪escribed Tombazis as an “exper🔯ienced engineer but not a major political figure.”
The F♎IA has stressed that Ben Sulayem’s decision to relinquish his direct involvement with F1 was planned since the start of his presidency and was not a reaction to the recent controversies.
Despite this, Slater reported that “a number of senior figures within the World Motorsport Council, so people within that FIA organisation and the heads of national authorit💙ies, have offered their advice to Ben Sulayem in the last couple of weeks, voiced their concerns, perhaps about his style of leadership.”
One senior F1 figure told🌃 Sky: “He [Ben Sulayem] has put a structu🅷re in place. Now he needs to let it do its job. So good move, I think, as per his manifesto’s intentions.”
“Maybe this🍌 is a positive sign and it allows Ben Sulayem to regroup and rethink how he goes about leading world motorsport and takes the heat out of what had become quite a fractious situation,”ဣ Slater concluded.
Issues that irked F1 bosses:
- The time it took to sort the Abu Dhabi enquiry
- The time it took to deal with the F1 cost cap saga
- Releasing the 2023 calendar without telling F1’s rights holder
- A perceived fixation about Hamilton's jewellery
- Full points confusion in Japan
- Speaking out about the ‘lukewarm’ response to Andretti’s F1 bid
- Talking about the value of F1 itself
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