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Sainz replaces F1 world champion Vettel as GPDA director
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Sainz replaces F1 world champion Vettel as GPDA director

By Miles Cooper February 23, 2025
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Williams driver Carlos Sainz has changed Sebastian Vettel as a director of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Affiliation – becoming a member of George Russell as the one two energetic racers concerned in managing the physique.

Russell was the one energetic member of the Components 1 drivers’ pursuits organisation since four-time world champion Vettel retired on the finish of 2022, when he was racing for Aston Martin.

The GPDA has been led by ex-F1 driver and double Le Mans winner Alexander Wurz as chairman since 2014, with Russell becoming a member of in 2021 – after solely two seasons competing in grand prix racing.

Together with Wurz, Russell and Sainz, the GPDA’s administration is accomplished by their fellow director Anastasia Fowle, who handles the organisation’s authorized pursuits.

“I’m obsessed with my sport and assume we drivers have a duty to do all we are able to to work with the stakeholders to ahead the game in lots of features,” stated Sainz.

“So, I am very completely happy and proud to do my half by taking over the director’s function within the GPDA.”

Sainz replaces F1 world champion Vettel as GPDA director

Sebastian Vettel

Picture by: JEP / Motorsport Photographs

The GPDA was first shaped again in 1961 with the goal of enhancing security requirements to guard drivers and motorsport occasion attendees in an period when racing dangers have been significantly increased.

It was reformed in 1994 after the deaths of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger at that yr’s Imola race and has been energetic ever since.

In recent times it has been concerned in numerous non-racing issues – such because the close to drivers’ strike following the missile assault on the 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

Final yr, the GPDA additionally known as for FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem to deal with drivers like adults amid the governing physique’s ongoing clampdown on driver expression.

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