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Main F1 steward sacked by FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem in newest energy transfer
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Main F1 steward sacked by FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem in newest energy transfer

By Miles Cooper November 28, 2024
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Main F1 steward sacked by FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem in newest energy transfer

FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has sacked one other prime official in one of many governing physique’s main F1 stewards, Tim Mayer, the son of McLaren co-founder Teddy Mayer.

Ben Sulayem, 63, is known to have been sad with a number of the feedback made by the promoters of the USA Grand Prix within the wake of the observe invasion by followers finally month’s race in Austin, for which the organisers have been fined €500,000.

Mayer, 58, additionally labored for the promoters of the USA Grand Prix alongside his function as an unpaid steward for the FIA, which he had carried out for 15 years, rising to grow to be co-chairman.

Mayer is known to have recused himself after the US GP organisers have been summoned to see the stewards to elucidate how 200 folks, coming from the grandstands reverse the pit lane, had climbed over a fence and dropped down two metres earlier than clearing a catch fence and a barrier separating them from the observe whereas automobiles have been nonetheless on their cool-down laps after the tip of the race.

Mayer’s departure will add to the rising sense of chaos throughout the FIA which has seen an exodus of workers over the past 18 months, lots of them having fallen out with Emirati Ben Sulayem, a former rally driver.

Niels Wittich, the FIA’s System One race director, was the newest high-profile worker to be axed. with three races of the season remaining after a falling out with Ben Sulayem.

Niels Wittich talks on the grid

Wittich was changed on the final race in Las Vegas by Rui Marques, most lately the race director for System 2 and System 3.

Ben Sulayem has been concerned in a sequence of controversies since being elected simply weeks after the controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix during which Max Verstappen gained his maiden world championship.

Then race director a number of months after that for what was described as a “human error”, however Ben Sulayem’s relationship with Mercedes, and particularly Toto Wolff and seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton, has by no means actually recovered.

The Emirati in France by Susie Wolff, the managing director of the all-female F1 Academy sequence, over the FIA’s into her relationship together with her husband.

Wittich’s abrupt departure was the newest in a protracted line of comparable departures within the final two years. on the acrimonious exit of Shaila-Ann Rao, the FIA’s former interim secretary basic for motorsport, who despatched a letter alleging quite a few situations of “unacceptable behaviour” on the a part of Ben Sulayem previous to leaving in December 2022.

An influential member of the FIA’s ethics committee resigned quickly afterwards following a disagreement over whether or not to analyze the Rao allegations.

Final December, sporting director Steve Nielsen give up after lower than a yr in his function. His departure adopted that of Deborah Mayer, the pinnacle of the FIA fee for girls. In January, main engineer Tim Goss left his function as single-seater technical director. And in Might, as chief government officer, exterior, after simply 18 months within the submit.

Telegraph Sport has approached the FIA and Ben Sulayem for a response.

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