The FIA president is under fire after comments from an archived website were uncovered, saying he doesn't 'like women who think they are smarter than men.' F1
This report comes off the back of multiple controversial topics that are surrounding the FIA president, who was elected to succeed Jean Todt in 2021.
He is currently at loggerheads with Formula 1 over his support for an Andretti-Cadillac bid to enter the sport, having opened an ‘expressions of interest’ process over new teams entering Formula 1 – against the wishes of several of the current teams, who aim to keep the grid in its current 10-team state.
Formula 1 chiefs also reportedly wrote to Ben Sulayem for apparently “overstepping” his remit when he expressed concern over an “inflated” $20billion figure quoted over a reported bid for Formula 1 by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.denying drivers the freedom of speech they have previously enjoyed
in a bid for political neutrality, with all Formula 1 personnel now requiring FIA approval before making political or religious statements at their events – putting a stop to what Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel had done in recent years by wearing T-shirts on the grid and raising matters important to them.
Most recently, a member of the UK House of Lords has also called Ben Sulayem “deeply discourteous and unprofessional” for failing to reply to a 2022 letter sent by him and 90 other European politicians expressing concerns about ‘sportswashing’ in Formula 1, by the sport visiting an increasing number of countries with poor human rights records.
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