Mohammed Ben Sulayem, the FIA president, is under investigation for allegedly interfering with an F1 race result.
reports that a whistleblower has told F1's governing body that Ben Sulayem intervened to overturn a penalty handed out to Aston Martin driverbut dropped to fifth when the FIA announced he had copped a 10-second penalty for having not properly served an earlier five-second penalty he had been given for failing to line-up within his grid box.
But the two-time world champion's 100th career podium was reinstated after the penalty was revoked following a successful right of review request from Aston Martin.Ben Sulayem is alleged to have called Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamas bin Isa Al Khalifa, the FIA's vice-president for sport for the Middle East and North Africa region, to make it clear that Alonso's penalty should be overturned.
BBC Sport says it has seen the claim in a report by FIA compliance officer Paolo Basarri to its ethics committee, and also verified the information with"several senior figures at high levels in F1 and close to the FIA."This marks the latest controversy Ben Sulayem has been at the centre of since being elected to the biggest job in motorsport at the end of 2021.
There was a stand-off between F1 and FIA over the amount of sprint races, the early publication of the 2023 calendar, and Ben Sulayem's offering ofwhen historic misogynistic remarks appeared on an archived version of his website. He later defended these remarks in an interview with the Press Association last November.
Most recently, the FIA placed Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff and his wife and Susie under investigation over an alleged conflict of interest following claims made in a magazine.EXCLUSIVE: Alex Albon’s plot to uncover Lewis Hamilton F1 secret foiled by George Russell
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