Fresh FIA president Mohammed ben Sulayem has refused to rule out punishing Lewis Hamilton for boycotting its awards ceremony on Thursday.
Hamilton and Mercedes team major Toto Wolff didn’t encourage in direct on the facing of the Abu Dhabi Big Prix closing Sunday.
System 1 solutions dictate that the pause three drivers within the championship ought to encourage.
“If there may per chance be any breach, there isn’t any forgiveness on this,” Ben Sulayem said.
Requested to interpret whether or no longer he used to be announcing Hamilton will seemingly be penalised for no longer attending the gala, he said: “Forgiveness is continuously there. But solutions are solutions.
“I know Lewis is indubitably unhappy about what occurred. I would affirm he’s broken. But we ought to see into if there may per chance be any breach. [After] a few hours now as president, I will be succesful to not give solutions with out going reduction to the facts.”
Wolff said on Thursday that Hamilton used to be “upset” after the events of Abu Dhabi and that he would possibly likely no longer guarantee the seven-time champion would return to F1 next one year.
The FIA has launched an inquiry into the events of Abu Dhabi, where flee director Michael Masi regarded now to no longer have a look on the organisation’s comprise solutions when it came to the operation of a unhurried safety-car period, resulting within the championship changing palms from Hamilton to Crimson Bull’s Max Verstappen on the closing lap of the flee.
The FIA has admitted that the controversy surrounding the flee used to be “tarnishing the image” of F1.
Wolff has accused Masi of “a freestyle reading of the foundations and it left Lewis like a sitting duck”, and of “robbing” Hamilton of the title. He added that Mercedes would “set the FIA to blame” for the controversy.
Ben Sulayem, 60, a outmoded rally driver who has been a member of the FIA World Council, F1’s legislative physique, since 2008, said: “Somebody will always collect upset. I spoke to Toto and he said to me: ‘I’m no longer coming here.’
“I listened to him. After I listened, he started cooling down. We are in a position to see into the foundations and form particular any peril like this that occurs at some point soon we are in a position to have an prompt answer to it. There are such numerous areas we can pork up.”
He said he believed that Hamilton, Mercedes and the FIA will be in a spot of abode to “birth afresh” in 2022.
“It is a accountability of me that we neglect the previous but see into it with development,” Ben Sulayem said.
“We have to be proactive. Now we ought to pork up in every aspect. As a driver, I will be so upset for a whereas but time is a indisputable reality that will chilly.”
Ben Sulayem is a 14-time Middle East rally champion and outmoded World Rally Championship competitor who has been a motorsport administrator for the previous 16 years.
He used to be elected after a advertising and marketing campaign in which he promised to amplify motorsport participation all the method in which in the course of the enviornment and lead the governing physique for its participants.
His deputy president for sport is Scot Robert Reid, who received the World Rally Championship as co-driver to Englishman Richard Burns in 2001.
Brazilian Fabiana Ecclestone – wife of outmoded F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone – is his vice-president representing South The usa.
He said Ecclestone had been nominated for her ride and credibility having worked for the FIA’s member club in Brazil and as phase of the organisation of the Brazilian Big Prix. She is potentially the most important lady to have a role as an FIA vice-president.
Ben Sulayem said Bernie Ecclestone had no longer been involved other than to introduce the pair.
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