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Mayer, the son of former McLaren team principal Teddy Mayer and a long-time supervisor at the FIA before his dismissal by Bin Sulayem last year, said he had made a number of ethics complaints to the governing body about the electoral process.
He added: “We strongly believe that a series of ethical violations have been committed in this electoral process.” “We have now filed several ethics complaints.
“Assuming the Ethics Committee finds our complaints valid, who will resort to this procedure? The FIA President or the Senate President – both parties to the dispute. The laws do not provide for any other method or any appeal. Where is the accountability? This is how institutions fail.
“I’m not a revolutionary. I want to develop the FIA into a better place so I intend to use the FIA’s processes as much as I don’t think they are independent or free and open.”
He also questioned the appointment of Daniel Quinn as a World Council representative from Costa Rica when the country has no motorsport events listed, which is a requirement for membership.
Mayer quoted from a report on the FIA issued by the Utrecht School of Government, which examines public organizations in their interaction with developments in politics and society.
Its report said the FIA’s score in the Sports Governance Observers Index was 45%, which places it “among the federations that have adopted the formal trappings of modern governance but lack strong institutional policies and guarantees.”
The report continued: “The FIA administration structurally concentrates power in the office of the president, and accountability remains confined within a system over which the president exercises decisive control.”
An FIA spokesperson said: “The FIA presidential elections are an orderly and democratic process, ensuring fairness and integrity at every stage.
“The requirements for the 2025 FIA elections, including the relevant deadlines and eligibility criteria for the Presidential List and World Councils, are set out in the FIA Rules and Bylaws, which are publicly available on the FIA website.
“Detailed information regarding these elections has also been made available on a dedicated page on the FIA website since 13 June 2025 and has been communicated to all FIA Members.
He added: “The requirements regarding the regional representation of vice-presidents of the sport, and their selection from the World Motor Sports Council in order to draw up a presidential list, are not new. These standards have been applied to previous elections.”
“As expected, preparing a nomination for a presidential list or for global councils requires taking certain steps. Since the publication of detailed information on June 13, potential candidates have had to prepare their applications.”
In response to the Utrecht report cited by Mayer, an FIA spokesperson said: “The report commissioned by Tim Mayer’s team finds that the FIA’s governance practices are in line with other federations, particularly those ‘that have made progress in formalizing governance structures’.”
“The benchmarking process outlined in the report does not find that the FIA is behind the curve. This reflects the fact that the FIA has taken several steps to strengthen its corporate governance policies.
“The FIA has not been contacted to confirm any of the statements or assumptions made about its operations, policies and governance in the report.”
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