Mohammed Ben Sulayem Set To Remain Fia President After Tim Mayer Fails To Meet Requirements

Mohammed Ben Sulayem will guidelines unopposed for different word arsenic nan FIA president aft it emerged nan past remaining campaigner who was preparing to tally against centrifugal sport’s divisive world leader will not beryllium mounting a challenge.

Tim Mayer, a erstwhile FIA elder steward pinch 15 years successful nan domiciled until he was sacked past November, was 1 of 3 candidates who had announced they would reason Ben Sulayem, alongside nan erstwhile racing driver Laura Villars and nan Belgian journalist Virginie Philpott.

None of them, however, are capable to meet nan FIA requirements for nan predetermination process, nan Guardian has learned. Mayer is expected to formally denote nan extremity of his run successful Austin connected Friday , wherever he will make clear nan reasons down it and his appraisal of nan existent electoral process.

The regularisation successful mobility requires that immoderate statesmanlike campaigner taxable six prospective vice-presidents for sport, 1 from each of nan FIA’s world regions.

Extraordinarily, nan personification who has unwittingly recovered themselves astatine nan bosom of nan rumor is nan erstwhile F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone’s wife, nan Brazilian Fabiana Ecclestone, who is nan only world assembly typical for South America and has already declared for Ben Sulayem.

With nary different representatives from South America, candidates cannot sanction a imaginable vice-president for nan region and are frankincense ineligible to stand, leaving Ben Sulayem unopposed successful December’s election.

It is believed Mayer will nevertheless proceed to run successful bid to show that he would person been a reliable alternative.

Recently Ben Sulayem has travel nether accrued disapproval surrounding nan rumor of governance of nan FIA, including accusations of a attraction of powerfulness successful his hands and that of nan legislature and successful limiting nan efficacy of nan morals committee that would let enquiries to beryllium suppressed by nan president.

David Richards, nan chair of Motorsport UK, noted he had “concerns astir nan erosion of accountability and bully governance wrong nan FIA”. While nan erstwhile lawman president for athletics Robert Reid, who resigned successful April, cited his unhappiness pinch “critical decisions being made without owed process” and a “fundamental breakdown successful governance standards”.