FILE PHOTO: Formula One F1 - Bahrain Grand Prix - Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain - March 28, 2021 Red Bull's Max Verstappen leads at the start of the raceFIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem has told Formula One drivers to mind their own business after they asked where money from race fines was going and why senior figures had left the governing body.
Leading steward Tim Mayer, the son of former McLaren boss Teddy, and Formula Two race director Janette Tan have also gone in recent days. “It’s none of their business. Sorry…I am a driver. I respect the drivers. Let them go and concentrate on what they do best, which is race.” “The drivers are getting over 100 million. Do I ask where they spend it? No. It’s up to them. It’s their right…we do whatever we do with the money. It’s our business. It’s also with them and their money. It’s their business.”He said he “lived free of charge” in the brains of critics in the media and did not need them or care what people said. He also rejected any suggestion that the FIA was in crisis and suffering a staff exodus under his leadership.