Tim Mayer is about to announce a marketing campaign to turn into president of the FIA this yr, RACER understands.
Affirmation is anticipated on the British Grand Prix, the place a press convention has been referred to as on Friday morning to announce a presidential candidate forward of the elections which are scheduled for December. RACER understands it is going to be the previous FIA senior steward Mayer who might be asserting his candidacy, with the American having left the governing physique late final yr.
On the time, Mayer advised the BBC he had been sacked by one in every of president Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s assistants through textual content message, after having to signify the US Grand Prix race organizers in a proper of evaluate listening to.
The 59-year-old son of former McLaren workforce principal Teddy Maye has greater than three a long time of expertise inside motorsports, beginning out in IndyCar and fulfilling a number of roles from a tv producer to an organizer and official, occurring to turn into senior vp of racing operations at Champ Automobile.
Mayer additionally had a spell as chief working officer of IMSA earlier than changing into concerned with the FIA as a race director and steward, taking over the position as one of many chairmen of the Components 1 stewards in 2016. He had additionally been liable for the group of FIA championships in the US.
Friday’s announcement is about guarantee there’s opposition to present president Ben Sulayem, who confirmed in Could he can be operating for a second time period. Ben Sulayem’s first four-year spell as FIA president has been beset by a number of departures of senior personnel and claims of a scarcity of transparency from each F1 drivers and a few nationwide motorsport our bodies.
He has additionally been criticized for adjustments made to the FIA statutes, however has helped the governing physique flip a revenue in its current accounts, after it made a big loss within the remaining yr earlier than he was elected. One of many high-profile senior departures – former FIA secretary for motorsport Shaila-Ann Rao – additionally returned as an advisor to the president earlier this yr.
Carlos Sainz Sr. not too long ago dominated out an try on the presidency, having beforehand introduced his curiosity in operating, citing the present circumstances as “not superb.”
