FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem under investigation for interfering in F1 race result

The FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem is under investigation for allegedly interfering over the result of an F1 race from last year.

A whistleblower has told the FIA, motorsport’s governing body, that Ben Sulayem intervened to overturn a penalty given to Fernando Alonso at the 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

According to BBC Sport, the claim is in a report by an FIA compliance officer to its ethics committee, though neither the governing body nor its president have commented on the matter.

Alonso was given a 10-second penalty after the race in Jeddah after a member of his pit crew had touched his Aston Martin while he was in the pits serving a five-second penalty – something that is illegal.