{"id":9572,"date":"2023-12-24T14:44:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T19:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/fia-chief-steve-nielsen-quits-after-less-than-a-year\/24\/12\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-12-24T14:44:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T19:44:24","slug":"fia-chief-steve-nielsen-quits-after-less-than-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/fia-chief-steve-nielsen-quits-after-less-than-a-year\/24\/12\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA chief Steve Nielsen quits after less than a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2023%2F0118%2Fr1119241_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2023%2F0118%2Fr1119241_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2023%2F0118%2Fr1119241_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2023%2F0118%2Fr1119241_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Steve Nielsen&#8217;s appointment was seen as a good move within F1.\u00a0<cite>Bryn Lennon &#8211; Formula 1\/Formula 1 via Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>FIA sporting director Steve Nielsen has quit his role with racing&#8217;s governing body after less than a year in the position.<\/p>\n<p>Nielsen was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/35472331\/governing-fia-shakes-formula-one-leadership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">appointed in January<\/a> to oversee and improve the FIA&#8217;s race control operations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/34296466\/unlapped-how-listen-watch-espn-new-f1-show-episode-archive-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Unlapped: How to listen or watch ESPN&#8217;s new F1 show, episode archive, and more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His move from F1 to the FIA followed a series of controversial decisions, most notably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/33310763\/michael-masi-removed-f1-race-director-abu-dhabi-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Michael Masi mistake<\/a> which impacted the end of the 2021 championship at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Within F1 Nielsen&#8217;s appointment, which saw him work closely with race director Niels Wittich, was seen as a good step to rebuilding trust in the governing body.<\/p>\n<p>As recently as August, Grand Prix Drivers&#8217; Association (GPDA) head George Russell described Nielsen as &#8220;a really great addition&#8221; to the process, but the championship now enters the new year with a void in that position.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/formula1\/67804122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a report by the BBC<\/a>, Nielsen stepped away because he did not feel the FIA is willing to make the changes he felt need to be implemented.<\/p>\n<p>His departure will raise serious questions over what comes next for the FIA &#8211; the way race control administered penalties remained a talking point in the 2023 season. A reorganisation is expected to follow in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>The FIA heads into the new year under a cloud caused by its knee-jerk investigation into an alleged conflict of interest between Mercedes boss Toto Wolff and F1 Academy chief Susie Wolff, which appeared to be based entirely off a single report in F1 Business Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>All nine of Mercedes&#8217; rival teams distanced themselves from suggestions one of them had raised an official complaint to the FIA.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation was dropped after just two days.<\/p>\n<p>The FIA, led by president Mohammed Ben Sulayem, has not yet elaborated on what prompted the investigation or what was behind the decision to go public.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month the Wolffs said they are involved in a legal exchange with the FIA over the matter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/racing\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/39177284\/fia-chief-steve-nielsen-quits-less-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Nielsen&rsquo;s appointment was seen as a good move within F1.&nbsp;Bryn Lennon &ndash; Formula 1\/Formula 1 via Getty Images FIA sporting director<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/fia-chief-steve-nielsen-quits-after-less-than-a-year\/24\/12\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[1639,382,3704,2866,1438,1112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9574,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572\/revisions\/9574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}