The president of the FIA to the Daily Mail: “I only asked for time to understand if my staff is holding up the effort”. The budget in the red despite the 40 million dollars annually from the GPs
His no is not definitive and is not linked to a question of money: so the president of the FIA, Mohammed ben Sulayem, replied in an interview with the British newspaper Daily Mail of “avarice”, for having sent (temporarily?) Upstream the plan of the Formula One Group and the teams to expand the sprint race front from 2023, the qualifying races on Saturday over 100 km without pit stops, to determine the starting grid, from three to six, by voting against the last Commission F1. “I did not ask for more money and if I had had it I would have spent it for the good of sport”, underlined the president who succeeded Jean Todt last December. “I support racing if it is the right thing to do, I am not saying it is not (this; ed) but in reality I want to understand if the federal staff is able to support this effort. It is not something for the immediate but for 2023, the house is not on fire.
Money
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F1 contributes to the FIA budget with 40 million dollars (38 million euros) but in 2021 the federation still suffered a loss of 27.6 million dollars. For this Ben Sulayem has decided to impose a cost cut of 25 percent.