Tim Mayer is preparing to run against the incumbent FIA president. He explains to Chris Medland why he's running and what he hopes to achieve in the position.
Seems like a stand up guy with a ton of qualifications. Hopefully enough of the members see him as an agreeable alternative to MBS. All the problems he mentions are very real and very visible, and unfortunately much bigger than he carefully implies. The consolidation of power and authority and extreme lack of accountability is appalling.
Hell, just for the regulations of 2026 debacle (giving teams basically just 1 season of development is so horrible considering the huge swath of changes) MBS obviously needs to go, and likely, hopefully, the member orgs are upset.
And more pointedly, all the recent morality police bullshit and the horrific sexism, particularly demonstrated in his culling of female leadership roles and around the extremely negligent FIA disinterest in F1 Academy, which is nearly entirely run by Susie Wolff and like 3 sponsors with basically no budget or marketing support from FIA.
Seems like a stand up guy with a ton of qualifications. Hopefully enough of the members see him as an agreeable alternative to MBS. All the problems he mentions are very real and very visible, and unfortunately much bigger than he carefully implies. The consolidation of power and authority and extreme lack of accountability is appalling.
Hell, just for the regulations of 2026 debacle (giving teams basically just 1 season of development is so horrible considering the huge swath of changes) MBS obviously needs to go, and likely, hopefully, the member orgs are upset.
And more pointedly, all the recent morality police bullshit and the horrific sexism, particularly demonstrated in his culling of female leadership roles and around the extremely negligent FIA disinterest in F1 Academy, which is nearly entirely run by Susie Wolff and like 3 sponsors with basically no budget or marketing support from FIA.
🖕MBS🖕