{"id":297558,"date":"2023-12-08T23:26:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T23:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=297558"},"modified":"2023-12-08T23:26:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T23:26:56","slug":"lewis-hamiltons-criticism-leaves-fia-president-hanging-onto-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/racing\/f1\/lewis-hamiltons-criticism-leaves-fia-president-hanging-onto-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton&apos;s criticism leaves FIA president hanging onto position"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Mohammed ben Sulayem hanging onto position after FIA president brought up potential conflict of interest between Toto and Susie Wolff<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hamilton said the actions were &#8216;unacceptable&#8217; ahead of end-of-season dinner<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A significant figure in the sport told Mail Sport the situation is &#8216;not going away&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mercedes boss Wolff has threatened to take legal action against governing body<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mohammed ben Sulayem was on Friday night hanging on to his position as the most powerful man in world motorsport.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton criticised the president of Formula One&#8217;s ruling body, the FIA, ahead of the end-of-season gala dinner in Baku, Azerbaijan, calling his actions this week &#8216;unacceptable&#8217; for bringing up a potential conflict of interest between his Mercedes boss Toto Wolff and wife Susie, managing director of the F1-owned female-only F1 Academy.<\/p>\n<p>The voice of a seven-time world champion is indeed significant. But the greater bother for Ben Sulayem, an Emirati former rally driver, went way beyond that to the heart of the incestuous FIA, a world-wide organisation comprised of member federations that exclusively elect their own president.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most significant figures in the sport, close to the scene, told Mail Sport, relating to Ben Sulayem&#8217;s position: &#8216;Anything could happen now.&#8217; He added: &#8216;This situation is not going away. It&#8217;s disgraceful the way Susie has been treated and she has everyone&#8217;s support.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We all know who it was who promoted this story (a possible reference to a Ben Sulayem adviser who is said to have planted it, or the Business F1 magazine that broke it).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/08\/21\/78753681-0-image-a-29_1702070846848.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mohammed ben Sulayem (centre) is hanging onto his position as FIA president after comments about Toto and Susie Wolff<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/08\/21\/78753687-0-image-a-30_1702070850196.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton criticised the president&#8217;s comments, branding them &#8216;unacceptable&#8217; before the end-of-season gala dinner<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/08\/21\/78753691-0-image-a-31_1702070853427.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ben Sulayem suggested there is a potential conflict of interest in the sport regarding Susie (left) and Toto (right)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Mohammed needs to deal with it or suffer the consequences.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This month&#8217;s Business F1 was clearly told that team principals were concerned that Wolff was gleaning information from Susie. The FIA put the matter before their compliance department on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>A day later, all nine non-Mercedes teams denied they had officially brought up a conflict of interest. This cut the ground from under the feet of Ben Sulayem, who has previously said, in remarks on a website many years ago, that he didn&#8217;t like women who thought they were smarter than men.<\/p>\n<p>By then, Susie Wolff, in a statement issued on Tuesday, accused an unnamed individual &#8211; perceived to be Ben Sulayem &#8211; of misogyny.<\/p>\n<p>Just 48 hours later, in the most embarrassing U-turn in FIA history, they called off their inquiry.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/08\/21\/78753767-0-image-a-32_1702070934033.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Susie has released a statement accusing an unnamed individual &#8211; perceived to be Ben Sulayem &#8211; of misogyny<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/08\/21\/78753775-0-image-a-33_1702070939407.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Toto has threatened legal action against the governing body, saying: &#8216;We are currently in active legal exchange with the FIA&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Toto Wolff threatened legal action against the governing body, saying: &#8216;We are currently in active legal exchange with the FIA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We await full transparency about what took place and why, and have expressly reserved all legal rights. We will certainly address the matter in due course.&#8217; Ben Sulayem was absent from the gala dinner press conference yesterday. The FIA said he had &#8216;suffered a fall and concussion&#8217;, but that he will &#8216;make a full recovery&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old was elected in December 2021 for a four-year term. The means of his removal, if that is what the members want, are complex, and he may serve from now on as a president denuded of his full powers.<\/p>\n<p>His deputy, Robert Reid, himself a world championship-winning rally co-driver, waits in the wings as a potential successor.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/formulaone\/article-12843633\/Lewis-Hamiltons-criticism-Mohammed-ben-Sulayem-position.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Mohammed ben Sulayem hanging onto position after FIA president brought up potential conflict of interest between Toto and Susie Wolff Hamilton said the actions were <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/racing\/f1\/lewis-hamiltons-criticism-leaves-fia-president-hanging-onto-position\/\" title=\"Lewis Hamilton&amp;apos;s criticism leaves FIA president hanging onto position\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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