{"id":19394,"date":"2013-09-25T19:50:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T23:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19394"},"modified":"2013-09-25T19:50:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T23:50:38","slug":"reports-bin-sulayem-the-next-fia-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/reports-bin-sulayem-the-next-fia-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports &#8211; Bin Sulayem the next FIA candidate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A name has now emerged, amid rumours a third candidate for December&#8217;s FIA presidential elections is looming.<\/p>\n<p>Briton David Ward has already entered the race to de-throne Jean Todt, but F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone this week hinted that a third contender might be waiting in the wings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe it (Ward&#8217;s candidature) has opened the door for other potential candidates,&#8221; he told Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ll say &#8216;If he can, I can too&#8217;.\u00a0 So we don&#8217;t know how many (candidates) there will be in the end.\u00a0 There&#8217;s still time to submit a nomination,&#8221; Ecclestone added.<\/p>\n<p>A name, mentioned not only by Auto Motor und Sport but also separately by Speed Week, has now emerged &#8212; Mohammad Bin Sulayem.<\/p>\n<p>He is known as the highest ranking motor racing official in the United Arab Emirates, and formerly a strong supporter of Max Mosley.<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old, a former Middle East rally champion, also made headlines a few years ago when he crashed a modern Renault formula one car at an event in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>Speed Week quoted an insider as saying: &#8220;He would be a dangerous rival for Todt and Ward, because there are many out there who would support him more than the Frenchman and his (British) challenger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A name has now emerged, amid rumours a third candidate for December&#8217;s FIA presidential elections is looming. Briton David Ward has already entered the race to de-throne Jean Todt, but F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone this week hinted that a third contender might be waiting in the wings. &#8220;Maybe it (Ward&#8217;s candidature) has opened the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,4604,5262,5300,4652,5340,284,4653,4654],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19395,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19394\/revisions\/19395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}