LONDON (Reuters) – McLaren boss Zak Brown referred to as on Monday for stronger leadership in Formula One to scale back the ability of larger groups and forestall the head of motorsport from turning right into a pantomime.
In a bit on the yr forward on the McLaren web site, Brown stated some rivals have been looking for “excuses to boost the fee cap and win world championships with chequebooks” whereas additionally gaining a bonus with B groups.
Without naming names, the American stated “at occasions it has appeared the game is ruled by sure groups” and extra leadership was wanted from Liberty Media-owned Formula One and the governing FIA.
The FIA final month elected a brand new president, Emirati Mohammed Ben Sulayem, in place of Frenchman Jean Todt, whereas Italian Stefano Domenicali took over final yr as Formula One chief government.
The 2021 season ended in uproar, with Mercedes accusing race director Michael Masi of robbing Lewis Hamilton of an eighth crown with a late change to the security automotive process that favoured Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, who took the title.
Both Mercedes group boss Toto Wolff and Red Bull’s Christian Horner spoke on the radio to Masi in the course of the race and the Australian official’s future stays unsure, with some sustaining that his place has turn into untenable.
Brown stated the previous had been characterised by “a primarily autocratic model of governance”, a reference to a long time beneath former supremo Bernie Ecclestone, and a extra consultative strategy had been essential to reset the game.
“Moving ahead there’s a have to shift again to stronger, extra directive leadership and governance on the high of the game,” stated the American.
“It is obvious that a few of the guidelines and their governance usually are not acceptable as issues stand.”
Brown stated the groups had contributed to inconsistencies in policing the laws and had voted for lots of the guidelines they now complained about.
He instructed the occasions of Abu Dhabi, topic to investigation by the governing physique, resulted from systemic failures with “a seeming lack of preparation for the occasions unfolding and short-term inertia on the options.”
“It is the groups who utilized the stress to keep away from ending races beneath a security automotive in any respect prices,” he noticed.
“It is the groups who’ve been utilizing the broadcasting of radio messages to the race director to attempt to affect penalties and race outcomes, to the purpose the place an over-excited group principal performs to the gallery and pressurises race officers.
“This has not been edifying for F1. At occasions it is felt like a pantomime audition fairly than the head of a world sport.”
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
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