FIA issue statement over Mohammed Ben Sulayem race interference allegations
The FIA have issued a statement following allegations against their president, Moh🍌ammed Ben Sula💙yem.

F1’s governing body - the FIA - have issuꦯed a statement responding to allegations sꦏurrounding president Mohammed Ben Sulayem, revealing that a report does exist.
The reported earlier this week that Ben Sulayem had allegedly 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:interfered with the race result of the 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix after 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso had been hit with a 10-second time penalty.
Ben Sulayem all﷽egedly intervened to try and get Alonso’s penalty overturned to ensure the Aston Martin drivꦿer remained on the podium.
24 hours later, a second set of a൲llegations emerged,ꦐ this time around the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
The same whistleblower who made the claim abo𒁏ut Ben Sulayem’s involvement in t🎶he Saudi Arabia result said that the FIA president allegedly instructed officials not to certify the new Las Vegas GP circuit.
By not certifying it, it would mean that the FIA deemed it nꦿot safe to race on and F1’s glamorous event in America wouldn’t have been able to go ahead♈.
On Tuesday evening, the FIA issued the following statement, co𒈔nfirming that a report “detailing potential allegatio༺ns” does exist.
“FIA confirms that the Compliance Officer has received a report detailing potential allegations involving certain members of its goveജrning bodies,” it read.
“The Compliance Department is assessing these concerns, as is common practice in these matters, to📖 ensure that due process is meticulously followed.”

Alonso's penalty was ultimately removed after Aston Martin's right oꦗf review was accepted.
The Spaniard was awarded a penalty after it was d🃏eemed that the mechanics were working on his car while serving his five-second time - which is against the rules.
But it was overturned, with the stewards noting: “There was no clear agreement, as was suggested to the Stewards previously, that could be relied upon to determine that parties had agreed th🎃at a jack touching a car would amount to working on the car. In the circumstances, we considered that our original decision to impose a penalty on Car 14 needed to be reversed and we did so accordingly.”
What does the report say?
The BBC have seen the aforementioned report and noted the following clai🎶ms from it, with regards to the Las Vegas GP.
The report notes: “[The manager}, who on behest of the FIA president instructed him to find some concerns to prevent the FIA from ce𝓡rtifying the circuit before the weekend of the race".
It adds: "The purpose was to find fault with the track in order to withhold the licence" and "asked to be more specific, [the whistleblower] said that issues on the circuit were meant to be artificial𝕴ly identified regardless of their actual existence, with the ultimate goal of withholding the licence."
The Las Vegas GP went ahead as scheduled, al♊though the first day of running was curt🍌ailed by a loose drain hole cover.

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