{"id":7376,"date":"2022-02-17T13:36:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T13:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsinside.com\/en\/f1\/news\/26339-the-fia-removes-michael-masi-from-position-as-current-race-director"},"modified":"2022-02-17T13:36:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T13:36:41","slug":"26339-the-fia-removes-michael-masi-from-position-as-current-race-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsinside.com\/en\/f1\/news\/26339-the-fia-removes-michael-masi-from-position-as-current-race-director","title":{"rendered":"The FIA removes Michael Masi from his position as the current race director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2021, which saw Max Verstappen crowned at the expense of Lewis Hamilton, marked the peak of tensions directed towards Michael Masi, FIA race director for Formula 1 races.<\/p>\n<p>The role of the race director is to enforce the regulations like a referee. Subject to radio calls from team principals, notably Horner for Red Bull or Wolff for Mercedes, Masi had to manage the teams&#8217; comments and their demands as well.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Ben Sulayem, recently appointed President of the FIA &#8211; International Automobile Federation &#8211; thus announced in a conference: &#8220;I would like to inform you that changes will take place starting from the Barcelona tests regarding management.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab Niels Wittich and Eduardo Freitas will take turns in the position of Race Director, assisted by Herbie Blash as senior advisor. Michael Masi, who has done a very challenging job over the past 3 seasons, taking over from Charlie Whiting, will be offered a new position.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Niels Wittich et Eduardo Freitas se relaieront dans le poste de Directeur de course, assist\u00e9s de Herbie Blash en tant que conseiller principal. Michael Masi, qui a fait un travail tr\u00e8s exigeant au cours des 3 derni\u00e8res saisons en succ\u00e9dant \u00e0 Charlie Whiting, se verra offrir un nouveau poste.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Masi was elected as the Interim Race Director following the passing of Charlie Whiting and has since held onto his position until this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FIA has just announced through a statement the change of position for Michael Masi, who will no longer be the Race Director for the F1 season in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":35474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[370,984,1004],"class_list":["post-7376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-fia","tag-michael-masi","tag-mohammed-ben-sulayem"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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