“Unhappy” FIA sporting director Steve Nielsen quits job leaving F1 drivers “dismayed”
He only started the role in January 2023 and was tasked with impro🌃ving race control.
But he has quit after less than a yea🍸r due to being “unhappy”, according to the BBC.
“The FIA w💛as not willing” to implement 🧜the changes that Nielsen recommended to improve its race control operation, the report states.
Nielsen had previously worked as spor♌ting director for the Tyrell, Benetton, Renault an🍒d Williams F1 teams. He then worked for Formula 1 after its takeover by Liberty Media.
F1 teams and drivers were supportive of Nielsen being appointed earlier this year and will be “dismayed” by his sudden exit, and “c🌳oncerned” by what might come next.
The FIA has also seen Deborah Mayer quit her job as head of the commissio🍎n for women this month.
The departures are the latest difficulties for the governing body led by Moham๊med Ben Sulayem.
He courted controversy this month by launching an inves♔tigation into Toto Wolff and Susie Wolff which was later dropped.
The Wolffs and Mercedes F1 team strongly condemned𒁃 the investigation. The oth🐟er nine F1 teams provided statements insisting they did not make complaints to prompt the FIA investigation.
James was a sp🎃orts journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports,𝓀 to football, to F1.
