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Sainz turns into director of F1 drivers’ physique
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Sainz turns into director of F1 drivers’ physique

By Miles Cooper February 23, 2025
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Sainz turns into director of F1 drivers’ physique

Carlos Sainz has turn into a director of the Formulation 1 drivers’ physique the Grand Prix Drivers’ Affiliation.

The 30-year-old Spaniard, who has for this season, fills the emptiness left by four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel, who retired from F1 on the finish of 2022 and stepped down as a GPDA director final yr.

In a publish by the GPDA on Instagram saying the appointment, Sainz mentioned: “I’m captivated with my sport and suppose we drivers have a duty to do all we will to work with the stakeholders to ahead the game in lots of points.

“So I am very pleased and proud to do my half by taking up the administrators’ position within the GPDA.”

Sainz joins chairman Alex Wurz, Mercedes driver George Russell and Anastasia Fowle as a GPDA chief.

Wurz mentioned: “We’re delighted to welcome Carlos as a GPDA director. He has been an lively and engaged member of the GPDA for a number of years and we sincerely recognize his dedication in stepping as much as this important position.”

The GPDA was fashioned again within the early Nineteen Sixties and has predominantly centered on security issues.

For instance, the GPDA and Wurz have been instrumental within the adoption of the ‘halo’ head safety machine in F1 for the 2018 season. It has since saved quite a lot of lives in critical accidents.

However in recent times the drivers have discovered themselves more and more at loggerheads with Mohammed Ben Sulayem, the president of governing physique the FIA, who was elected in 2021.

Ben Sulayem’s actions have led to issues amongst many stakeholders in F1, and the drivers are weighing up how to reply to his resolution in January to .

The FIA has not clarified how these guidelines will probably be utilized. World rally driver Adrien Fourmaux this month grew to become the primary driver to fall foul of the regulation and was a fined €10,000 for swearing in a TV interview at Rally Sweden.

Sainz has mentioned this month that it’s , though he agreed drivers ought to keep away from dangerous language in information conferences and tv interviews.

In November, the GPDA wrote an open letter to the FIA asking the governing physique to deal with them like adults, saying it felt fines have been “not applicable” types of punishment and asking for transparency as to how they have been spent.

They’ve acquired no response from the FIA on the matter.

The letter was a response to in an official information convention on the Singapore Grand Prix in September.

This follows different interventions by Ben Sulayem, equivalent to , which have additionally irritated the drivers.

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