Mohammed Ben Sulayem of the United Arab Emirates has been elected successor to Jean Todt as the primary non-European president of motorsport’s world governing physique, the Worldwide Vehicle Federation (FIA) mentioned on Friday.
The 60-year-old Dubai-born former rally driver was standing in opposition to British lawyer Graham Stoker, who has been Todt’s deputy president for sport since 2009.
The FIA is the governing physique for System One, the World Rally Championship, World Endurance and System E amongst different sequence.
Frenchman Todt, the previous Ferrari boss who has retired aged 75 and after three phrases of workplace, stood unopposed in 2017. He stays an honorary president.