Former F1 journalist Dieter Rencken, who has been working as an advisor to FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem for a number of months, will take up the position with fast impact.
It’s understood that Rencken will report on to Ben Sulayem, and he has been tasked with aiding within the formulation and implementation of enhancements for F1 on behalf of the governing physique. The FIA is a separate organisation to F1’s industrial rights holders FOM.
He’ll moreover assist with discussions over the framing of the brand new Concorde Settlement, the doc by which F1 is run, which is anticipated to return into power in 2026.
The concept of the FIA having a devoted commissioner for F1 was one thing that has been talked about a number of occasions previously, with earlier FIA president Jean Todt making it a part of his manifesto when he first took workplace in 2009.
Nevertheless, the plans had been subsequently deserted based mostly on two separate grounds.
First, Todt discovered it not possible to search out the correct candidate as a result of, as a non-profit making organisation, the FIA couldn’t afford to pay sufficient for the perfect candidates.
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Carlos Sainz Jr driving for Renault Sport F1 Workforce in 2017 alongside Dieter Rencken, Journalist
Talking on the time, Todt mentioned: “We have to discover anyone who’s prepared to provide his time, together with his capability, virtually freed from cost.
“It’s one thing that makes the selection tougher however we’re at fairly a great level, and for me I desire to attend a number of months and have the profile I need to discover fairly than rush to fill the place.”
In the long run, Todt utterly deserted the concept as a result of he felt the commissioner position was not wanted whereas F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone was so sturdy in operating the F1 Fee.
Final month although, Todt’s successor Ben Sulayem talked about needing to get extra folks working round him, as he declared confidence in those that had been going to guide negotiations for the Concorde Settlement.
“It is not a one-man present,” he mentioned. “I all the time go to our group. When you requested me six months in the past, I might have mentioned I haven’t got sufficient [of a] good group to barter this.
“We’ve got a great single-seater [technical department] we’ve got all of that. However in relation to negotiation, negotiation is just not technical folks: technical persons are about restrictors, about sound, about PU. That is not what exists with the industrial aspect.
“So now as we speak, I’ve a great group. It is good to start out now. However our home is just not on fireplace. And the brand new Concorde Settlement needs to be truthful to the entire three stakeholders: FIA, FOM and the ten groups, if they’re nonetheless there. That’s the place then I feel we’ll really feel good.”