The anticipations have been confirmed: Tim Goss, technical director of the single-seater sector has decided to leave the FIA. Less than a year after the appointment of the World Council, the 60-year-old British engineer resigned from the position, following in his choice Steve Nielsen, the sports director who left during the Christmas holidays.
The FIA replaced Nielsen with Tim Malyon which was made official today: the Canadian will supervise all sporting matters, taking care of the Race Direction of the GPs and the Remote Operations Center (ROC) in Geneva, and will report to Nikolas Tombazis, the director of the single-seaters of the FIA.
Malyon, a mechatronics engineer, entered F1 when Red Bull was still Jaguar Racing. With the Milton Keynes team he contributed to Vettel's four world championships in the period 2010-2013, before moving to Sauber in 2015 and then to BMW Motorsport as chief engineer of the DTM program in mid-2016. Tim after winning a championship he had become the chief engineer in the Bavarian company's Formula E team.
He has been with the FIA since 2019 and has been responsible for safety since 2021. Malyon was the one who started the Remote Operations Center. For a Tim who grows in the FIA hierarchies, there is another Tim who leaves. Goss had joined the governing body's technical staff in 2021 and was tasked with studying the new regulations. Like Nielsen, Tim would also have entered into a collision course with president Mohammed Ben Sulayem over the strategy with which the International Federation is conducted, given that at the moment no work alternatives are known.
The English engineer who started in F1 at Cosworth in 1986 as a supercharged engine ignition specialist, went to McLaren in 1990 where he remained for 28 years, climbing the various positions up to the technical director he obtained in 2013 by taking over Paddy Lowe, moved to Mercedes. Tim was sidelined by the Woking team in 2018 after the failure of the operation with the Honda power unit.
The FIA loses its pieces when its president is delegitimized after the Wolff case which shook the world of F1 due to the alleged conflict of interests of the Austrian manager which led to the start of an investigation which was then immediately closed due to lack of evidence. The Wolff couple and Mercedes reserved the right to file a complaint against Ben Sulayem and the FIA, while the Circus teams unanimously defended Toto.
The issue seems to have ended in silence, but it is moving under water: there will certainly be developments…
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