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The "How i run FIA is none of your business" statement, is just the worst possible response. What are FIA without the drivers and the teams? Absolutely nothing. MBS is slowly becoming a new sports head dictator, in which by now, we've had far too many. He needs to be replaced.
The fish is rotting from the head. So many FIA officials have quit or been fired because of Ben Sulayem. He's clearly the source of the issues. He has to go. I would hope F1 finds a way to get him out before he does even more damage.
F1 has zero power to decide about the FIA boss! FIA governs race rules across the majority of world championship car motorsports. It is independent of all motorsport series.
That's a good turn of phrase, there. Rotting from the head down lol I jokingly said this dude was at least the entertaining kind of stupid, and that I'm kinda alright with him sticking around. Getting real hard to keep the act up when I hear of him pulling shit like this. I still don't like the idea of a world where Liberty and FOM have all the power, because an entertaining idiot beats some greedy scumbag businessmen any day, but neither option is great. F1 is toast the moment profits dry up.
@@piuthemagicmanexactly. People thing about the FIA as an F1 governing body. But it's all series throughout the world. There are even countries with zero relevance regarding racing which can vote. Even worse, votes have the same weight. This is how MBS will be kept as FIA's president/CEO/sole ruler/whatever.
Honestly a VSC for 1 minute would have been fine for someone to go out on track when no cars were coming down the straight and pick the mirror up. Would have solved so many problems in the race. I thought thats what they were planning when the yellow went up for that short time, but then they cancelled the yellow and just let it sit there even after someone ran it over...
@@LordSaliss Also, the VSC would make most cars run to the pits for a tyre change further facilitating the job of the marshal who just had to collect a mirror
The Tv commentators the Marshals the fans watching at home all new at the time to deploy the safety cars it was no brainer the race director should be in a alot of hot water because he put the drivers at risk
At this point in F1, it feels like the race director has the least amount of say in what happens in the race. And i guess if they don't like that then they'll find someone else.
Ben Sulayem is the worst kind of manager. Good managers will listen to the people around them and work towards a solution. He doesn't have the proper personality to do that and it's hurting the sport.
Would like to see a report on Ben Sulayem, why is he in his position and why wont they remove him. This guy has so much influence I would like to know how.
The easy answer as to why he got the position is down to decades of work in the organization and as an athlete in motorsport. I remember he did some rally stints in the early 2000s. Jead Todt left his post and i guess at the time the majority thought MBS made a good candidate for his replacement, maybe they have doubts about their choices today. If its like many other organizations you either resign, wait till a new election or be re evaluated after someone has reported an issue in leadership, seeing as many are leaving the FIA its a possibility that ousting Ben has been difficult.
Here's me with crippling imposter syndrome, panicking all the time in my job that I dont know what I'm doing even though I'm ludicrously overqualified. And theres Ben Sulayem, walking in every day brimming with confidence that he's doing a brilliant job.
Classic case of sports executives thinking they are more important than the product on the field or track in this case. NOBODY watches F1 because MBS is FIA president. In a perfect world we wouldn't really hear from him or anyone else at the FIA because things are going well.
There is either a safety issue to deal with or there is not. Putting everyone at risk whilst pondering how dealing with it will impact on the entertainment is infuriating.
Does Formula 1 even need the FIA...??? F1 can easily self-govern, self-regulate & organise itself as a travelling global race series... Perhaps Liberty needs to remind FIA of this & re-read & evaluate just how water-tight the 99 year Bernie/Max contract is...?!? 🤔🤔🤔
With the way the FIA is structured, namely the way the president is being elected every 4 years one can understand why Mr Sulayem can get away with acting like a Tsar. Between the Asia Pacific zone and the middle eastern zone ASNs there are some 74 votes and the Asian zone in particular tend to be united and vote as one so unless there is another candidate these 2 zones/regions prefer more than Mr Sulayem that's a lot of safe votes for him to continue his reign should he choose. It's not difficult to understand why he can openly tell the teams and drivers to GF'd if they don't like his style of running the show, as he knows the only people he needs to please are the members who are eligible to vote for him as mentioned by Scott in this episode.
You're far too kind to Michael Masi - don't forget how he sent the cars out behind the safety car in Spa resulting in points effectively being awarded for qualifying. He was a disgrace.
He's literally just being a dictator removing people who talk against his ideas hiring his friends or supporters who would've thought somebody from a Middle Eastern regime is doing their government style in the FIA
Japan 2011 had a similar level of debris on track between 130r and the last chicane and Charley whiting brought out a full sc for that with no consequence. We don't have Charley whiting anymore, but learn from the standard set by him!
The very first point in the "explainer" is just immediately BS. The debris wasn't on the racing line, but only if you don't take overtakes into account. In a DRS zone. C'mon man, do better than this.
11:45 - this statement smacks of absent leadership, when a disinterested autocrat leaves his subordinates hanging in the wind with the World Press. If the FIA had shareholders & a board of directors, MBS would not remain as President in 2025.
Something that needs to be clear is that the biggest risk of the debris sitting there was not someone running over it and creating more debris and affecting the race, it was someone running over it and sending it into the cockpit of someone behind
F1 should honestly ditch the FIA, they aren't offering anything any more - were they ever? Didn't want to deploy a safety car and influence the race? They influenced the race by handing out thatridiculous penalty to Norris! Don't care if Kimi got the same pen in 2017, they either think it's super dangerous or they don't. You can't leave the obstruction on track and not give a crap, to the point we have cars blowing tyres, then turn round and hand that out.
This is one of the rare instances where someone is so ridiculously incompetent and negligent that I feel like I’d do a better job than Mohammed ben Sulayem if I stepped into the role tomorrow.
MBS already has a $1.5million slush fund to bribe Motorsport clubs worldwide for their vote at next years election. The FIA governance officer was fired after he questioned it……
I dont agree with them thinking a vsc wasnt enough to clear the debris. Maybe after you left it on track and let someone explode it into a million pieces but there was most definitely a gap big enough for someone to run out and grab that mirror. That vsc would have lasted all of 30 seconds at most.
Its not a silver bullet, But they need to have a Director racing or Director F1 instead of the presses of the FIA. Like mentioned in the clip, if 2/3 of his core business is something else then have a dedicated experienced stable director take over the day to day stuff and have MBS just do what he is hired for runt the FIA.
The FIA "justification" about needing a full safety car due to cleanup time is complete BS considering they could have went and picked up the single piece of debris in a few seconds under VSC BEFORE it was run over
Had the VSC been deployed and there would be a rush to the pits, further helping the marshal to swiftly collect the mirror, wouldn't take more than 5/6 seconds, c'mon...
That was a very awkward way to shoehorn the advertising in, but... you know what, I was fooled for a good minute and a half into thinking that we were still on the video topic, so I'll give you credit where credit's due.
I have been a manager at a business with 20 employees and in some cases, the rules are black and white with now wiggle room, but in other cases, things are not so black and white. It is in these cases, were you have to talk about the problem and hear their side to that problem. Just because you are at the top of the tree, doesn't mean that all of the companie's answers are correct of best prcatices. Hearing other sides gives the company input which may allow it to adjust and take on better practices. This is how companies grow and stay relievent in their chosen industry. The FIA is clearly bigger than the company I worked for, but those at the top have to listen to all of those around them to be effective. Can you imagine if car companies didn't adopt Henry Ford's production line system, because they thought they had the answers and best practices. MBS needs to listen from the top down like everyone in the FIA. It;s just common sense and smart business practices.
I dont get why every time theres a safety car its like the're trying to figure out what to do for the first time. How is it not automatic. "Debris on the track in sector 1, deploy the safety car. Lapped cars to overtake in sectors 2 & 3 only". As soon as the track is clear "Safety car in this lap". Whats so hard about this.
The officiating can be made orders of magnitude better, and the broadcast improved, is they invested in buying the current technology and services to update detecting, calling, measuring, and enforcing penalties. The technology exists. I’d gladly help if I could. The point is that the possibility to improve and steps necessary should be obvious to F1 and the FIA.
You had 2 gaps of over 12 seconds between cars when the mirror was on the track. A VSC should have been fine. Instead the mirror was hit and we had a 5 lap SC. Also why does it take 10-15 laps to call a penalty? Lewis jumped the start and it wasn't penalize until lap 14. Norris it too closer to 22 laps to have a penalty.
MBS never struck me as someone who respects the balance of the big powers in the concorde agreement nor the structure and intricacies of the FIA itself. Granted there's a lot that can be done better by the FIA and man do we miss Charlie Whiting and Jean Todt.
This was bound to happen firing Wittich at this point of the season. They got lucky in Vegas with a relatively clean event. Lusail was a disaster waiting to happen.
So are you telling me the best solution if the VSC wasn't the right one was to continue racing with debris on the track, by the way, in a part of a track where it's the best overtaking area. Just disgusting.
If it wasn’t to favor another driver in 21’, then why was verstappen allowed to pass all the lapped cars even it was against the regulations? Nonsense argument
A bit rich to say that Masi didn't favour one driver over another!! Only letting cars between Hamilton & Verstappen to unlap themselves and keeping everyone else in place. We'll never know what RB gave Masi at the end of 2021, but I hope it was worth it. If he was so determined to have the race finish under race conditions but be fair to all competitors he could have just left everyone where they were. Verstappen would still have had a very good chance of catching & passing Hamilton in the lap, but removing these minor obstacles guaranteed it. Ben Sulayem is a disaster - I thought Todt was forever tarnished with his partiality but Sulayem appears to be at least tyrant curious.
If we had an FIA president taking all the suggestions and advice from the press, teams, and fans you’d all be up in arms that he’s corrupt. Instead, he makes his own decisions and says “tough shit” to those groups and he needs to go. Honestly would love to know how anyone does that job in a way that doesn’t get the outrage mob riled up every day
I’m gonna crash out if McLaren end up bottling the championship because of landos penalty (which deserved something but 10 second stop and go is insane)
The obsession of green flag finishes is too much. Sometimes things don't go great. Like Belgium 2021, sometimes you just can't race, but you don't know until you get out there and try.
Balestre and Ben Sulayem are cut from the same cloth - Balestre was just romanticized and meme'd in pop culture because (to many today) he turned into the 'movie villain' in the Senna/Prost feud etc etc. however, both appear to have an equally autocratic and arrogant personnality.
Mohammed Ben Sulayem so far makes Max Mosley's time look good by comparison, he's dragging the FIA through the mud. He needs to either resign or be removed
The problem is that no one with the power to make the call seemed to understand that the debris WAS on the racing line if you were trying to pass, breaking a toe, etc. Even if it’s not technically on what people usually mean by racing line (there are many different kinds depending on the situation) the stewards and race director should know enough to understand that the debris is exactly where many drivers will need to go and it’s not going to vanish, it’s going to shatter and make more debris from cars it hits and tires that puncture, early Kepler syndrome type stuff. They looked like idiots not because of the penalty, but because the FIA’s decisions, which they had many laps to think about, were so poor. They don’t even know why they should be embarrassed, which is even more embarrassing. Like one loose part breaking other parts loose, these types of clueless behavior will have effects on the teams and races.
It’s corruption, maybe not _corruption_ corruption, but he’s dismantling the organisation. Think about the International Olympic Committee, FIFA, the UCI. That’s where the FIA is heading.
It's not just MBS that needs to go! We majorly need transparency, but on all levels and I have a very strong feeling that there more than meets the eye; especially considering how much money is in the "sport" and all the shady deals and things happening in the background. The overall management and processes of the FIA need to completely change, as so far it's gone from bad to worse across all fronts, and saying that the recent changes and "accords" they done have change things in a positive way is an absolute joke for an enterprise that's supposed to represent the pinnacle of motorsport racing worldwide. I would stay far away from all this as a legitimate investor. Let's see if ego's deflate and common sense, joy, entertainment, respect and real innovation come back on all levels of this beautiful sport.
Do people really have a problem with the FIA's work during the Qatar Race? Of course the safety car and how the car mirror on the track wasn't removed much, much quicker, that was terribly handled. But otherwise, I think most decisions were good.
What a crap weekend for F1. It's the exception rather than the norm but I wouldn't be honest if I didn't say that I'm concerned about F1 due the FIA leadership. The thing is, there's nothing else to fill F1's gap even if it does implode. CART tried in the 90s and then it imploded and no one's tried since.
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P1 copy?
There's nothing that unites F1 teams and fans like hating on the FIA
80's F1 fans be like: "God dammit this is Briatore all over again isn't it?"
The "How i run FIA is none of your business" statement, is just the worst possible response. What are FIA without the drivers and the teams? Absolutely nothing. MBS is slowly becoming a new sports head dictator, in which by now, we've had far too many. He needs to be replaced.
Tactless, heavy-handed, and decisive. The comparisons to middle eastern dictators grow stronger by the day.
The fish is rotting from the head. So many FIA officials have quit or been fired because of Ben Sulayem. He's clearly the source of the issues. He has to go. I would hope F1 finds a way to get him out before he does even more damage.
F1 has zero power to decide about the FIA boss! FIA governs race rules across the majority of world championship car motorsports. It is independent of all motorsport series.
@@piuthemagicmanits incredible how long the fia has had a stronghold in motorsports and yet it manages to shit the bed so consistently
They invited Arabs to lead and now wonder why there is no democracy... at least F1 and FIA got morals that are not driven by money 😂😂
That's a good turn of phrase, there. Rotting from the head down lol
I jokingly said this dude was at least the entertaining kind of stupid, and that I'm kinda alright with him sticking around. Getting real hard to keep the act up when I hear of him pulling shit like this. I still don't like the idea of a world where Liberty and FOM have all the power, because an entertaining idiot beats some greedy scumbag businessmen any day, but neither option is great.
F1 is toast the moment profits dry up.
@@piuthemagicmanexactly. People thing about the FIA as an F1 governing body. But it's all series throughout the world.
There are even countries with zero relevance regarding racing which can vote. Even worse, votes have the same weight.
This is how MBS will be kept as FIA's president/CEO/sole ruler/whatever.
MBS needs to go
The decision not to bring out the safety car when the mirror was on track was disgraceful and dangerous
Honestly a VSC for 1 minute would have been fine for someone to go out on track when no cars were coming down the straight and pick the mirror up. Would have solved so many problems in the race. I thought thats what they were planning when the yellow went up for that short time, but then they cancelled the yellow and just let it sit there even after someone ran it over...
@@LordSaliss Also, the VSC would make most cars run to the pits for a tyre change further facilitating the job of the marshal who just had to collect a mirror
I agree. Assuming no one hit the mirror, were they really going to just finish the race with yellow flags on that part of the track?
The Tv commentators the Marshals the fans watching at home all new at the time to deploy the safety cars it was no brainer the race director should be in a alot of hot water because he put the drivers at risk
At this point in F1, it feels like the race director has the least amount of say in what happens in the race. And i guess if they don't like that then they'll find someone else.
The FIA is now the FIFA of motorsports
Obviously, they are both the governing body of the respective sports
equally bad but FIA is a worse president
Always has been, tbf
In my opinion, Fifa is much much worse and more evil.
They have the same role yes. Only the sport is different.
Ben Sulayem is the worst kind of manager. Good managers will listen to the people around them and work towards a solution. He doesn't have the proper personality to do that and it's hurting the sport.
Micro manager to the extreme. Time to go.
Would like to see a report on Ben Sulayem, why is he in his position and why wont they remove him. This guy has so much influence I would like to know how.
guess it has to do with pieces of paper with peoples faces on them (usually green colored)
Yes, please
oil dollars
The easy answer as to why he got the position is down to decades of work in the organization and as an athlete in motorsport. I remember he did some rally stints in the early 2000s.
Jead Todt left his post and i guess at the time the majority thought MBS made a good candidate for his replacement, maybe they have doubts about their choices today.
If its like many other organizations you either resign, wait till a new election or be re evaluated after someone has reported an issue in leadership, seeing as many are leaving the FIA its a possibility that ousting Ben has been difficult.
Take a drink everytime Ben blinks:
Sober
Dang, now I can't unsee it
MBS acts like a brat who has never been denied anything.
You are acting like a crybaby
@@AZBCDEwow you sure told him 🤡
Here's me with crippling imposter syndrome, panicking all the time in my job that I dont know what I'm doing even though I'm ludicrously overqualified. And theres Ben Sulayem, walking in every day brimming with confidence that he's doing a brilliant job.
Mohammed Ben Sulayem has got to go.
You have to stop crying like a crybaby
You have to stop crying like a crybaby
Classic case of sports executives thinking they are more important than the product on the field or track in this case. NOBODY watches F1 because MBS is FIA president. In a perfect world we wouldn't really hear from him or anyone else at the FIA because things are going well.
After qualifying: "FIA was too harsh with Max".
Meanwhile after the race...
FIA: "Hold my penalty notebook".
There is either a safety issue to deal with or there is not. Putting everyone at risk whilst pondering how dealing with it will impact on the entertainment is infuriating.
The FIA needs F1 more than F1 needs the FIA. F1 is large enough to kick the FIA to the curb.
Does Formula 1 even need the FIA...??? F1 can easily self-govern, self-regulate & organise itself as a travelling global race series... Perhaps Liberty needs to remind FIA of this & re-read & evaluate just how water-tight the 99 year Bernie/Max contract is...?!? 🤔🤔🤔
With the way the FIA is structured, namely the way the president is being elected every 4 years one can understand why Mr Sulayem can get away with acting like a Tsar. Between the Asia Pacific zone and the middle eastern zone ASNs there are some 74 votes and the Asian zone in particular tend to be united and vote as one so unless there is another candidate these 2 zones/regions prefer more than Mr Sulayem that's a lot of safe votes for him to continue his reign should he choose. It's not difficult to understand why he can openly tell the teams and drivers to GF'd if they don't like his style of running the show, as he knows the only people he needs to please are the members who are eligible to vote for him as mentioned by Scott in this episode.
He’s running the FIA in a very Saudi way. Secret, elitist, impervious to those deemed lesser than him…
Safety should be the priority. Period.
You're far too kind to Michael Masi - don't forget how he sent the cars out behind the safety car in Spa resulting in points effectively being awarded for qualifying. He was a disgrace.
He was bought & paid for.
He's literally just being a dictator removing people who talk against his ideas hiring his friends or supporters who would've thought somebody from a Middle Eastern regime is doing their government style in the FIA
The sooner the GPDA boycotts a race the better…
MBS is ruining F1.
Good, I hope he ruins it even more.........
If this gets worse, something similar to the indycar split might happen to F1.
Bring back FISA-FOCA war
Japan 2011 had a similar level of debris on track between 130r and the last chicane and Charley whiting brought out a full sc for that with no consequence. We don't have Charley whiting anymore, but learn from the standard set by him!
TOO much drama...MBS should go to NASCAR and leave F1 alone!
The very first point in the "explainer" is just immediately BS. The debris wasn't on the racing line, but only if you don't take overtakes into account. In a DRS zone. C'mon man, do better than this.
11:45 - this statement smacks of absent leadership, when a disinterested autocrat leaves his subordinates hanging in the wind with the World Press. If the FIA had shareholders & a board of directors, MBS would not remain as President in 2025.
MBS has to go. His position is beyond untenable
Something that needs to be clear is that the biggest risk of the debris sitting there was not someone running over it and creating more debris and affecting the race, it was someone running over it and sending it into the cockpit of someone behind
F1 should honestly ditch the FIA, they aren't offering anything any more - were they ever? Didn't want to deploy a safety car and influence the race? They influenced the race by handing out thatridiculous penalty to Norris! Don't care if Kimi got the same pen in 2017, they either think it's super dangerous or they don't. You can't leave the obstruction on track and not give a crap, to the point we have cars blowing tyres, then turn round and hand that out.
This is one of the rare instances where someone is so ridiculously incompetent and negligent that I feel like I’d do a better job than Mohammed ben Sulayem if I stepped into the role tomorrow.
MBS is a sign FIA is open minded towards corruption
Ben was genuinely getting concerned there 😂
We really did take Charlie Whiting for granted at the time...
soo, how long until a new fia presidential election?
MBS already has a $1.5million slush fund to bribe Motorsport clubs worldwide for their vote at next years election. The FIA governance officer was fired after he questioned it……
I dont agree with them thinking a vsc wasnt enough to clear the debris. Maybe after you left it on track and let someone explode it into a million pieces but there was most definitely a gap big enough for someone to run out and grab that mirror. That vsc would have lasted all of 30 seconds at most.
Its not a silver bullet, But they need to have a Director racing or Director F1 instead of the presses of the FIA. Like mentioned in the clip, if 2/3 of his core business is something else then have a dedicated experienced stable director take over the day to day stuff and have MBS just do what he is hired for runt the FIA.
The VSC could have been used to clear the car part before Bottas dismantled it. It was inevitable that someone would. Or just use the safety car.
Serious question: Has Mohammed Ben Sulayem ever done anything good for the sport?
ALMOST: he ALMOST got another team on the grid.
But he couldn't even do that right
The FIA "justification" about needing a full safety car due to cleanup time is complete BS considering they could have went and picked up the single piece of debris in a few seconds under VSC BEFORE it was run over
Had the VSC been deployed and there would be a rush to the pits, further helping the marshal to swiftly collect the mirror, wouldn't take more than 5/6 seconds, c'mon...
Corruption rules the FIA
Im gonna say it: Michael Massi did nothing wrong
JOKING aside, MBS needs to go. He's the worst part of F1 right now, and it's not even close.
That was a very awkward way to shoehorn the advertising in, but... you know what, I was fooled for a good minute and a half into thinking that we were still on the video topic, so I'll give you credit where credit's due.
I have been a manager at a business with 20 employees and in some cases, the rules are black and white with now wiggle room, but in other cases, things are not so black and white.
It is in these cases, were you have to talk about the problem and hear their side to that problem. Just because you are at the top of the tree, doesn't mean that all of the companie's answers are correct of best prcatices. Hearing other sides gives the company input which may allow it to adjust and take on better practices. This is how companies grow and stay relievent in their chosen industry.
The FIA is clearly bigger than the company I worked for, but those at the top have to listen to all of those around them to be effective. Can you imagine if car companies didn't adopt Henry Ford's production line system, because they thought they had the answers and best practices.
MBS needs to listen from the top down like everyone in the FIA. It;s just common sense and smart business practices.
I dont get why every time theres a safety car its like the're trying to figure out what to do for the first time. How is it not automatic. "Debris on the track in sector 1, deploy the safety car. Lapped cars to overtake in sectors 2 & 3 only". As soon as the track is clear "Safety car in this lap". Whats so hard about this.
The officiating can be made orders of magnitude better, and the broadcast improved, is they invested in buying the current technology and services to update detecting, calling, measuring, and enforcing penalties. The technology exists. I’d gladly help if I could. The point is that the possibility to improve and steps necessary should be obvious to F1 and the FIA.
Mister Bone Saw seems like a fitting name by now
MBS thinks he's running FIfA
"I would like to cast a vote of no confidence in chanselo- I mean, FIA president Ben Salami."
You had 2 gaps of over 12 seconds between cars when the mirror was on the track. A VSC should have been fine. Instead the mirror was hit and we had a 5 lap SC. Also why does it take 10-15 laps to call a penalty? Lewis jumped the start and it wasn't penalize until lap 14. Norris it too closer to 22 laps to have a penalty.
During a VSC can the Race Director mandate the drivers us the pit lane? In this case, if that's allowed, two laps under VSC would have worked.
He doesnt like his authority being questioned and we cant have a leader like that.
MBS never struck me as someone who respects the balance of the big powers in the concorde agreement nor the structure and intricacies of the FIA itself. Granted there's a lot that can be done better by the FIA and man do we miss Charlie Whiting and Jean Todt.
Wish F1 would just go back to the 90s regulations a time when F1 wasn’t over regulated
Anybody with a child's fishing net could have retrieved that mirror on the track.
When a CEO keeps blaming and firing Presidents, the BOD needs to replace the CEO.
F1 needs to create their own leadership to run the sport, get rid of the FIA.
This was bound to happen firing Wittich at this point of the season. They got lucky in Vegas with a relatively clean event. Lusail was a disaster waiting to happen.
I guess MBS doesn't want to be clear of where the drivers' fines go because a big chunk of them probably go into his pockets.
So are you telling me the best solution if the VSC wasn't the right one was to continue racing with debris on the track, by the way, in a part of a track where it's the best overtaking area. Just disgusting.
Mahaveer Raghunathan would make a better FIA president
If a car went off the racing line, then that would be a new racing line, crap decisions all weekend.
If it wasn’t to favor another driver in 21’, then why was verstappen allowed to pass all the lapped cars even it was against the regulations? Nonsense argument
Race F1 is NEVER this critical of F1 Liberty, who similarly have little accountability or transparency.
Mohammed Ben Sulayem reflects cultural discrepancies impossible to bridge.
Theres a difference between strong leadership and a dictatorship, Mr Ben Salami
A bit rich to say that Masi didn't favour one driver over another!! Only letting cars between Hamilton & Verstappen to unlap themselves and keeping everyone else in place. We'll never know what RB gave Masi at the end of 2021, but I hope it was worth it. If he was so determined to have the race finish under race conditions but be fair to all competitors he could have just left everyone where they were. Verstappen would still have had a very good chance of catching & passing Hamilton in the lap, but removing these minor obstacles guaranteed it.
Ben Sulayem is a disaster - I thought Todt was forever tarnished with his partiality but Sulayem appears to be at least tyrant curious.
They can’t sweep all this under their bloody Prayer Rug…
MBS needs to remember that his culture & his job, aren't the same thing. What did anyone expect?!
Thanks for not being janitors for once.
Muy apreciando
It’s a shame F1 can’t be self- governing and tell the FIA to shove it….
This is what happens when you let teams talk to race control and ask for penalties. Do not allow team's to talk to race control.
If we had an FIA president taking all the suggestions and advice from the press, teams, and fans you’d all be up in arms that he’s corrupt. Instead, he makes his own decisions and says “tough shit” to those groups and he needs to go. Honestly would love to know how anyone does that job in a way that doesn’t get the outrage mob riled up every day
I’m gonna crash out if McLaren end up bottling the championship because of landos penalty (which deserved something but 10 second stop and go is insane)
Looks like Ferrari International Assistance is coming back after yesterday.
Also the earth is Flat
The absolute state of the FIa right now
MBS thinks being a boss is the same as being a leader, and it shows.
The obsession of green flag finishes is too much. Sometimes things don't go great. Like Belgium 2021, sometimes you just can't race, but you don't know until you get out there and try.
The general assembly needs to replace MBS. He's a liability.
Rui Marques = Michael Masi. 2025 will be chaos. Where is this VAR they said was introduced after 2021?
Scott talking about echo chambers is rich.
Its not chaos, it's a mess to say politely. As die hard fan it's pushing me away from sports. Hope FIA will sack him and sort it self out .
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I long for the days of Jean-Marie Ballestre . . .
"This decision is my decision" sounds like something they both could've said.
Balestre and Ben Sulayem are cut from the same cloth - Balestre was just romanticized and meme'd in pop culture because (to many today) he turned into the 'movie villain' in the Senna/Prost feud etc etc. however, both appear to have an equally autocratic and arrogant personnality.
Ben Sulayem has been a disaster for the FIA. Name one series that is in a better place than it was 3 years ago. He has to go.
Mohammed Ben Sulayem so far makes Max Mosley's time look good by comparison, he's dragging the FIA through the mud. He needs to either resign or be removed
The problem is that no one with the power to make the call seemed to understand that the debris WAS on the racing line if you were trying to pass, breaking a toe, etc. Even if it’s not technically on what people usually mean by racing line (there are many different kinds depending on the situation) the stewards and race director should know enough to understand that the debris is exactly where many drivers will need to go and it’s not going to vanish, it’s going to shatter and make more debris from cars it hits and tires that puncture, early Kepler syndrome type stuff. They looked like idiots not because of the penalty, but because the FIA’s decisions, which they had many laps to think about, were so poor. They don’t even know why they should be embarrassed, which is even more embarrassing. Like one loose part breaking other parts loose, these types of clueless behavior will have effects on the teams and races.
It’s corruption, maybe not _corruption_ corruption, but he’s dismantling the organisation. Think about the International Olympic Committee, FIFA, the UCI. That’s where the FIA is heading.
My god. I thought I was going to watch a review on the FiA mess. Turns out it is a plug for the live shows
It's not just MBS that needs to go! We majorly need transparency, but on all levels and I have a very strong feeling that there more than meets the eye; especially considering how much money is in the "sport" and all the shady deals and things happening in the background.
The overall management and processes of the FIA need to completely change, as so far it's gone from bad to worse across all fronts, and saying that the recent changes and "accords" they done have change things in a positive way is an absolute joke for an enterprise that's supposed to represent the pinnacle of motorsport racing worldwide.
I would stay far away from all this as a legitimate investor.
Let's see if ego's deflate and common sense, joy, entertainment, respect and real innovation come back on all levels of this beautiful sport.
Do people really have a problem with the FIA's work during the Qatar Race? Of course the safety car and how the car mirror on the track wasn't removed much, much quicker, that was terribly handled. But otherwise, I think most decisions were good.
Rui Marques was the 4th race director or the 3rd??? I remind you that this event is from this season
The bloke looks like a Bond villain. Enough said on the matter.
What a crap weekend for F1. It's the exception rather than the norm but I wouldn't be honest if I didn't say that I'm concerned about F1 due the FIA leadership. The thing is, there's nothing else to fill F1's gap even if it does implode. CART tried in the 90s and then it imploded and no one's tried since.
Bring back Michael Massi!