F1 2024 Retro – The Rant: The FIA’s Crusade

A divisive figure, the president of the FIA, Mohammed Ben Sulayem, has his colleagues waltzing around and has locked himself into a policy of opposition that generates more conflicts than it resolves. Power in question.

Published 20/12/2024 à 15:30

Jean-Michel Desnoues

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F1 2024 Retro – The Rant: The FIA’s Crusade

Mohammed Ben Sulayem and Max Verstappen - Photo: Eric Alonso / DPPI

Witch hunts on one side, series of major defections on the other, life is not good within the governing body placed under the aegis of President Ben Sulayem who took office in December 2021. Three years of a presidency whose muscular approach displeases many

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Yves-Henri RANDIER

20/12/2024 at 04:20 a.m.

The MBS is indeed divisive! This potential autocrat will therefore run again and he has - it is to be feared! - the strong possibility of winning a second term thanks to the support of all the federations of the "Global South" which carry more weight than the historical federations.

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