Ben Sulayem faces accusations of sexism and bullying from newspaper

Within the round-up: FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has been accused of “sexism and bullying” by a British newspaper.

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Ben Sulayem faces new accusations

The Day by day Telegraph claims Shaila-Ann Rao, who joined and left the FIA over a six-month interval final 12 months, despatched a letter alleging sexist behaviour to Ben Sulayem and FIA Senate president Carmelo Sanz de Barros. The newspaper claims they weren’t investigated.

It quotes an FIA spokesperson responding to the accusations, saying: “Shaila-Ann Rao was a brief director on the FIA from June 1 2022 after which turned interim secretary common for motor sport. In Nov 2022 it was determined by each events that she would depart that place. Mutual privateness phrases have been agreed as is commonplace in enterprise. Neither social gathering has made a reference to the FIA Ethics Committee.”

The newspaper provides its reporters “spoke to dozens of present and former FIA workers, together with elected officers, World Motor Sport Council members and stewards who likewise paint an image of erratic and bullying behaviour behind the scenes.”

Ben Sulayem has made few public feedback because the demise of his son early final month. He was beforehand energetic on Twitter, however his account on the social media website was closed with out rationalization a number of weeks in the past.

He turned president of the FIA in December 2021 at a turbulent time for the governing physique following the controversial conclusion to that 12 months’s world championship. He drew criticism earlier this 12 months when sexist feedback attributed to him on his official website over 20 years in the past have been republished by The Instances newspaper. An FIA spokesperson mentioned on the time: “The remarks on this archived web site from 2001 don’t replicate the president’s beliefs.”

Euroformula grid reaches eight automobiles for season opener

Euroformula, Europe’s System 3-level junior single-seater collection, seems unlikely to surpass 10 automobiles this season with eight solely confirmed for this weekend’s opening spherical on the Autodromo do Algarve.

The collection has a confirmed report of attracting future stars, with IndyCar champion Alex Palou, Ferrari F1 driver Carlos Sainz Jnr, IndyCar race-winner Colton Herta and reigning System 2 champion Felipe Drugovich amongst its graduates, however has struggled to draw groups and drivers following the domination of German squad Motopark in recent times.

Motopark introduced their fourth driver on Tuesday, with GB3 race-winner Cian Shields becoming a member of the group for his second season in automobile racing. Of the 4 automobiles being entered by different groups, one in every of them is just not even confirmed for past spherical one.

There are two extra automobiles owned by Motopark that may very well be run, whereas BVM Racing has one confirmed driver and wish to signal one other. The prospect of the grid rising has been jeopardised by lots of the established groups promoting their automobiles on to drivers who race elsewhere.

Azerbaijan GP sells all grandstand tickets

Alex Albon, Williams, Baku Street Circuit, 2022 — Baku’s grandstands will probably be full this weekend

The promoter of this weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix has introduced that this 12 months’s race could have full grandstands, having offered out of the 30,000-plus accessible tickets to followers from over 100 nations.

There have been no adjustments to the capability of the 12 grandstands across the Baku Metropolis Circuit since final 12 months’s grand prix. These within the grandstands is not going to solely get to observe the grand prix on Sunday, but in addition F1’s first dash race of 2023.

System Ford race determined in precise picture end

Stay timing transponders in automobiles has largely put an finish to race winners being determined by a real picture end. However simply that occurred final Saturday at Oulton Park within the opening race of Britain’s nationwide System Ford championship.

The chequered flag and painted white line on the observe is in a barely totally different place to the timing sensor line that registers with the transponder {that a} lap has been accomplished, and the place of transponders inside automobiles can fluctuate.

In an exhilarating wheel-to-wheel battle that lasted many of the race, Oldfield Motorsport group mates Brandon McCaughan and Lucas Romanek met the chequered flag side-by-side. McCaughan was initially decided by the reside timing to have completed forward. However after evaluating the 2 automobiles’ transponder alerts and images of the end, Romanek was declared the victor by 0.078 seconds.

Simply 0.06s cut up the third and fourth-placed drivers as in addition they completed side-by-side, and sixth place was solely 0.862s behind the winner. McCaughan struck again in race two to win by 0.374s over Romanek.

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