FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has been accused of trying to stop the Las Vegas F1 circuit frꦦom be💝ing certified and thus unable to be raced on ahead of last year’s inaugural event.

This is the second set of allegations against Ben Sulayem, after 🎃it emerged on Monday tha🐠t he attempted to interfere with the result of the 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

As reported by the , the allegations come from the same whistleblower and are centred around 🃏the Las Vegas GP which took place in November.

The whistleblower was allegedly instructed to find a way not to pass the new Las Vegas circuit safe for rac🌄ing in F1 “✃on behest of the FIA president”.

It’s cur🥂rently unclear why the FIA president would want to hamper the inaugura𒁏l Las Vegas event.

An FIA spokesperson has told the : "From a sporting and safety perspective, the Las Vegas circu꧑it approval followed FIA protocol in terms of inspection and certification.

"If youไ recall, there was a delay in the track being made avai🅰lable for inspection due to ongoing local organiser construction works."

A report by𝕴 the FIA’s compliance officer has been sent to its ethics committee detailing the claim.

The re🉐port notes: “[The manager},&nbs🤪p;who on behest of the FIA president instructed him to find some concerns to prevent the FIA from certifying the circuit before the weekend of the race".

It adds: "The purpose was to find fault with the track in order to withhold the licence" and "asked to be more specific, [the whistleblower] said that issues on the circuit were mean𒈔t to be artificially identified regardless of their actual existence, with the ultimate goal of withholding the licence."

The officials ultimat🐎ely passed the Las Vegas circuit following an inspection and the grand prix went ahead as scheduled.

Come the actual weekend, practice was heavily disrupted after168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Carlos Sainz went over a drain cover.

It co꧅mpletely destroyed the chassis on his Ferrari, leading to the cancellation of FP1, while FP2 was entirely🐻 delayed.

Controversially, second practice♉ took p𝕴lace so late that fans weren’t able to watch.