Formula One’s owners are understood to be deeply dissatisfied with the sport’s governing body, the FIA
before the rain became too heavy and that the FIA was too conservative in its concern that the drivers had not done any wet running until that point. “I don’t know the reason for them not sending us out,” he said. “We are Formula One drivers; [the weather] is not a good enough reason.”
Ben Sulayem presided over the failure to ban Russian drivers from competing in FIA events, allowing them to continue to race under a neutral flag, when F1 had acted swiftly and decisively to sever all ties with the Russian GP. The FIA was made to look farcical shortly afterwards when individual national racing bodies such as Britain’s Motorsport UK issued their own ban on Russian teams, competitors or officials participating in events in the UK.
More recently Ben Sulayem opposed the unanimous agreement by F1 and all the teams to increase the number of sprint races next year to six. His stance was known to have been received with considerable annoyance by both teams and F1.
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