Wittich fired: the great purge continues at the FIA

You're welcome, just a clarification, I'm not saying that we should change our culture, all cultures are respectable, far be it from me to say that some would be better than others! I just persist in saying that throughout the world there are cultures (but in the end are there any?) that are not really inclined to take steps towards the other. As for comparing that of some of our most famous writers, it is above all a Western culture after all!

Thank you very much for your response which, in fact, by using irony to avoid responding to what I wrote and by asserting that we can/must change culture (which is based on the idea of ​​impermeability while I was talking about openness and cultural exchange since individual and global culture is a phenomenon of hybridization and adaptation, Balzac's culture not being quite that of Voltaire who in turn was not quite that of Racine, etc.) confirms what I was emphasizing earlier.

Oops; misspelled: "that he necessarily logically naturally changed culture" It is to be hoped, but I cannot not doubt it, even a little.

@Michel Vaillant: More than very generally completely agree, indeed, especially do not stigmatize (As a non-deconstructed white male I still sometimes make mistakes!) It is to be hoped that you are perfectly right. I would therefore not add here that it is not because the president of the FIA ​​graduated in the United States that he has not changed culture.

Despite all the love I have for the sport that brings us together here, it would not occur to me to compare what are basically government quarrels to the execution of political opponents. Unless we suppose that it is because we come "from there" that we act in a brutal manner. However, it does not seem to me that when Donald Trump promises to "clean up the swamp" or to fire the special prosecutor in charge of two investigations against him, we attribute this to his roots... in New York (but perhaps it is because that is Western and therefore different). Forcibly removing opponents by taking advantage of a dominant position is unfortunately a universal way of doing things, we have examples of it every day, including in the automobile industry. As for talking about two worlds that are not meant to live together, that seems to me just as connoted. And unfounded. Simply because Bin Sulayem practiced (in European structures like M-Sport) and now runs a sport specifically defined by Western authorities shows that these are not two hermetic groups. It would be like saying that Pope Francis cannot run the Catholic Church because he was not born in Europe... Incidentally, Bin Sulayem also grew up in the USA, since he graduated there. All this to say that even when there is every reason to criticize someone for their actions (and I obviously recognize in this case that there is reason to react, which must also be placed in the context of tensions, not to mention a latent war, between the FIA ​​and those who manage what is nevertheless the jewel in its crown, F1, which in my opinion almost all the statements of the president of the FIA, the F1 drivers, the FOM or Liberty Media fall under), linking these criticisms to national presuppositions, not to mention writing something else, opens up morally indefensible considerations (not to mention their prohibition or legal punishment).

Oddly enough, Masi and Wittich were fired after making decisions that favored Verstappen in some way. Paranoia on my part? Either way, they blew like fuses, but the damage was done...

When I learned that BEN SALAYEM had managed to get into management, I told myself that problems like those in the management of F1 were not going to be long in coming!!!!!!!!!!

We must not hide our faces, the world in which the president of the FIA ​​lives, the one in which he grew up is NOT the (Western) world of F1. These two worlds (we have examples of this every day) are incompatible, in total opposition to each other. As for using the word "verse" in an article whose main subject is Mohammed Ben Sulayem, you had to dare! respect!

Just like the bloody Saudi version of MBS, the Emirati MBS of the FIA ​​is just as autocratic as his neighbor and does not tolerate protest ... exactly like the one who seeks to impose himself as a leader when he is not a natural leader! When will the next election at the head of the FIA ​​be held in order to quickly close the Emirati chapter that will not remain etched in the memories of Formula 1 fans, the real fans not the Netflixers!