F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali says recent errors “shouldn’t happen” and FIA "must deliver”
Awkwardness between F🥂1 and its governing body the FIA are high as the 2023 season edges closer, ✨with Ben Sulayem’s role at the heart of the tension.
Ben Sulayem will step back from the day-t♒o-day runn𒆙ing of the FIA after he wrote a dramatic letter to F1 team principals.
The FIA president's controversies include:
The time it took to sort the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix enquiry
The time it took to ꦯdeal with the F1 cost cap saga
Releasing the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 2023 calendar without telling F1’s rights holder
A perceived fixation about 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton's jewellery
Full points confusion in Japan
Speaking out about the ‘lukewarm’ response to Andret🧸ti’s F1 bid
Talking about the value of F1 itself
Domenicali has now told Sky: “These things shouldn’t happen൩. For the benefit of the sport, everyone needs toꦰ do their own job.
“The credibility of our bra♏nd is re🌸lated to everyone doing the perfect job in the role that they have.”
Domenicali said about Ben Sulayem’s presidency: “It is normal for a new president, that he has a manifesto to respect. Because th𝔍at was his proposition in front of the members who voted him in.
“There is a need for time to adjust, to assess the right role w♋ithin the FIA.
“It is no secret to say that the key to success is for everyone to do their own job, in the right way, to benefit the grow🅰th of the sport.
“Anything that is n🐻ot helpful? There is no need to comment. Our interest is to make sure the sport is 🌳growing.
“We ♋do our job as the commercial rights holder. The teams do their job. The same for the FIA who have had one year to develop, grow, work on a new team. They must deliver the job.
“We all have our cr👍edibility🧔 on this. If someone is not doing the right job? It is a problem.”
Domenicali said about the letter that Ben Sulayem sent to F1 team bosses to announce his stepping-back from day-to-day running of the FIA: “We discussed it w🍒ith Mohammed. He is the president. It is a big role.
“His action will be to stay connected to the strategy, as it shoꦕuld be, and people will run the day-to-day♔.”
Ben Sulayem sent tweets to downplay the value of F1 afte🦄r reports that Saudi Arabia had bid to buy it. This ange🅰red F1 owners Liberty Media who sent him a letter.
“It was important to clarify the ꧂role, for each of us,” Domenicali 🅷said.
“There is no more to comment. 🅘We stay 🔯focused on what we believe is right for the growth of the sport.
“This was news tha🦄t is not news! If the sport grows we should all be happy.”
Domenicali describes the role of the FIA within F1: “In the 100-year💮 agreement they are the regulator. Together, they shape the sport with us.
“I don’t want to fight. If this is the approach, it is wrong. I h♑ave a bigger pict༺ure. I don’t have an ego.
“I will never be involved in ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚany punching inside the scrum! It is not my role. I am bigger than that.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a🎀 decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
