McLaren is unhappy with the FIA, claiming the move of its safety delegate Laurent Mekies to Ferrari contravenes an agreement between the governing body and F1 teams. The FIA official who, in addition to his safety duties, also acted as the deputy race director for F1 and F2, will be taking on a technical role at the House of Maranello at the end of September this year. Mekies is the second FIA official in a year to move to an F1 team, with the former head of the institution's technical department, Marcin Budkowski, having been previously recruited by Renault. The latter's move generated discontent among the teams which saw Budkowski as privvy to F1 teams' engineering secrets collected in...
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