FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem is relying on the institution's trainee programmes for its key personnel and especially for those officials involved in F1 to establish the sport's race directors of the future. Since taking the helm of the FIA at the end of last year, Ben Sulayem has initiated wholesale changes within the organisation's sporting branch, defining a new organigramme that now sees F1's race control alternatively chaired on race weekends by Niels Wittich and Eduardo Freitas, with each director assisted by the other. The change, which helped relieve pressure off the shoulders of a single individual in charge, followed the massive controversy that took place at F1's season...
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