On Saturday the 2024 season of the Formula 1 with the victory of the Dutch Max Verstappen; However, it seems that the controversies off the tracks are being more protagonists than the drivers on the asphalt.
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The first was with the team leader of Red Bull, Christian Horner, to whom the team opened an internal investigation for “inappropriate behavior towards an employee of the racing team.” The diaries Bild and The Times, revealed that “a female employee would have received intimate images on her cell phone.”
In the end, Horner He was acquitted of the accusation of “inappropriate behavior” and remains the head of the Austrian team. Although this issue left a tremendous impact on Red Bull: there is talk of a possible departure of the three-time world champion Max Verstappen.
Jos Verstappen, father of the current triple Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen, stated that the Red Bull team was going to “explode” and a problem is coming for Horner. “There is tension (in the team) as long as I remain in office,” he declared on Saturday in Shakir the former Dutch F1 driver to the sports supplement of the British newspaper Daily Mail, hours after his son's victory in the Bahrain Grand Prix, the first round of the season.
Controversy over an accusation against the president of the FIA
The BBC of England revealed this Monday that Mohammed Ben Sulayempresident of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) is being investigated for allegedly interfering in the outcome of a 2023 race.
“A whistleblower told the FIA that Ben Sulayem allegedly stepped in to overturn a penalty imposed on Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso at the 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. The statement appears in a report from an FIA compliance officer addressed to its ethics committee,” the outlet explained.
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“The accusation made by the complainant is that Ben Sulayem He called the Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa – the FIA vice-president of sport for the Middle East and North Africa region, who was in Saudi Arabia for the race in an official capacity – and made it clear that he thought Alonso's sanction should be overturned. “Alonso had received a 10-second penalty for work done on his car while he was serving an earlier five-second penalty,” he explained.
In said Big prize, The Spanish driver placed his car outside the starting grid box and received a 5-second penalty, which he served during a pit stop.
After compliance, Alonso received another penalty, this time for 10 seconds, because Aston Martin had “infringed the rules by working the car.” “The penalty was imposed because Alonso's car had been touched by the rear jack before full time had elapsed, in contravention of F1 rules,” explains the BBC.
“At the time, the justification given by the stewards for overturning the decision concerned a discussion that had taken place between the F1 teams and the FIA over the issue of working on the cars while serving a pit penalty,” he added.
In the report prepared by the compliance officer, Paolo Basarri, explains that the complainant said that Ben Sulayem “he pretended that the commissioners were annulling their decision to impose.”
This penalty made Fernando Alonso would lose third place (podium) and fell to fourth place, behind the Red Bull Sergio Pérez, Max Verstappen and Mercedes' George Russel.
The aforementioned media stated that Ben Sulayem and the FIA They have not come out publicly to talk about the issue, but senior managers from Formula 1 and the FIA have verified the information, but did not confirm that an investigation process is being carried out.
Finally, the aforementioned media noted that the disciplinary committee could issue a complete report on the issue involving the FIFA president in the next four or six weeks.
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