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Sainz turns into director of F1 drivers’ physique
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Sainz turns into director of F1 drivers’ physique

Motorsports February 23, 2025
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Carlos Sainz has turn out to be a director of the Components 1 drivers’ physique the Grand Prix Drivers’ Affiliation.

The 30-year-old Spaniard, who has for this season, fills the emptiness left by four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel, who retired from F1 on the finish of 2022 and stepped down as a GPDA director final 12 months.

In a submit by the GPDA on Instagram saying the appointment, Sainz stated: “I’m obsessed with my sport and assume we drivers have a duty to do all we will to work with the stakeholders to ahead the game in lots of facets.

“So I am very joyful and proud to do my half by taking up the administrators’ position within the GPDA.”

Sainz joins chairman Alex Wurz, Mercedes driver George Russell and Anastasia Fowle as a GPDA chief.

Wurz stated: “We’re delighted to welcome Carlos as a GPDA director. He has been an energetic and engaged member of the GPDA for a number of years and we sincerely admire his dedication in stepping as much as this important position.”

The GPDA was fashioned again within the early Sixties and has predominantly targeted on security issues.

For instance, the GPDA and Wurz have been instrumental within the adoption of the ‘halo’ head safety machine in F1 for the 2018 season. It has since saved a variety of lives in severe accidents.

However in recent times the drivers have discovered themselves more and more at loggerheads with Mohammed Ben Sulayem, the president of governing physique the FIA, who was elected in 2021.

Ben Sulayem’s actions have led to considerations amongst many stakeholders in F1, and the drivers are weighing up how to answer his determination in January to .

The FIA has not clarified how these guidelines will probably be utilized. World rally driver Adrien Fourmaux this month grew to become the primary driver to fall foul of the regulation and was a fined €10,000 for swearing in a TV interview at Rally Sweden.

Sainz has stated this month that it’s , though he agreed drivers ought to keep away from unhealthy language in information conferences and tv interviews.

In November, the GPDA wrote an open letter to the FIA asking the governing physique to deal with them like adults, saying it felt fines have been “not acceptable” types of punishment and asking for transparency as to how they have been spent.

They’ve obtained no response from the FIA on the matter.

The letter was a response to in an official information convention on the Singapore Grand Prix in September.

This follows different interventions by Ben Sulayem, equivalent to , which have additionally irritated the drivers.

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