FIA issue statement over Mohammed Ben Sulayem race interference allegations
The FIA have issued a stateme♉nt following allegations🃏 against their president, Mohammed Ben Sulayem.

F1’s governing body - the FIA - h🃏ave issued a statement responding to allegations surrounding pr💮esident Mohammed Ben Sulayem, revealing that a report does exist.
The reported earlier this week that Ben Sulayem had allegedly 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:interfered with the race result of the 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix after 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Alonso had been hit with a 10-second time penalty.
Ben Sulayem allegedly intervened to try and ge𝓡t Alonsꦍo’s penalty overturned to ensure the Aston Martin driver remained on the podium.
24 hours later,🦄 a s🐬econd set of allegations emerged, this time around the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
The same whistleblower who made the claim about Ben Sulayem’s inv𝓀olvement in the Saudi Arabia result said that the FIA president allegedly instructed officials not to certify t🅘he new Las Vegas GP circuit.
By not certifying i🐼t, it would mean that the FIA deemed it not safe to race on and F1’s glamorous event in America wouldn’t have been able to go ahead.
On✨ Tuesday evening, the FIA issued the following statement, confirming that a report “detailing potential allegations” does exist.
“FIA confirms that the Compliaꦰnce Officer has received a report detailing potential allegations involving certain members of its governing bodies,” it read.
“The Compliance Department is a🌟ssessing these concerns, as is common practice in these matters, to ensure that due process is meticulously followed.”

Alonso's penalty was ultimately remo𝓡ved after Aston Martin's right of rev꧂iew was accepted.
Th꧙e Spaniard was awarded a penalty after it was deemed that the mechanics were working on his car while 💛serving his five-second time - which is against the rules.
But it was overturned, with the stewards noting: “There was no clear agreement, as was suggested to the Stewards previously, that could be relied upon to determine that parties had agreed that a jack touching a ca😼r would amount to working on the car. In the circumstances, we𝔉 considered that our original decision to impose a penalty on Car 14 needed to be reversed and we did so accordingly.”
What does the report say?
The BBC have seen the aforementioned report and noted the following claims from it, wiඣth regards to t💖he Las Vegas GP.
The report notes: “[The manager}, 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 rac♊e".
It adds: "The purpose was to find fault wi꧒th the track in order to withhold the licence" and "asked to be more specifiꦕc, [the whistleblower] said that issues on the circuit were meant to be artificially identified regardless of their actual existence, with the ultimate goal of withholding the licence."
The Las Vegas GP went 💛ahead as scheduled, although the first day of running was curtailed by a loose drain hole♏ cover.

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