The 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:FIA announced on Wednesday it has hired F1 veteran Nielsen from FOM to take the role of sporting director, working directly underneath Nikolas Tombazis, who has been given✱ a new position that puts him in overall charge of the FIA’s F1 operations. 

Nielsen will oversee race-control operations and be tasked with fixing the FIA’s race-management problems that have plagu🔯ed F1 in recent years. 

The resh⭕uffle follows a review of the FIA’s internal procedures instigated by president Mohammed Ben Sulayem. 

58-year-old Nielsen joined F1 in 2017 following a long career working as a sporting director for several teams, including at the rebranded Alpinꦰe for more than a decade. 

It is hoped Nielsen’s experience will🧔 help improve the issues that have overshadowed 🔜F1 since Charlie Whiting’s death on the eve of the 2019 season. 

Whiting’s replacement, Michael Masi, was removed as race director following his mishandling of a late 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Safety Car period at the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. 

Masi’s failure to apply the rules correctly altered the outcome of the world championship, controversially denying168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton a record-breaking eighth drivers’ title and enabling 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen to claim his maiden crown. 

Masi was replaced by Eduardo Freitas and Niels Wittich, who alternat🎀ed the role for 2022, but problems persisted. 

Notable errors included a botched start procedure at Monaco, a controversial finish at Monza, a 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:crane being sent onto the track amid heavy rain and poor visibility in Japan and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:confusion over the points syst🃏em which overshadowed Vers🥀tappen’s coronation, while drivers were left frustrated at a series of inconsistent stewards’ decisions. 

But there is cause for optimism among the teams tha♔t Nielsen’s appointment, as well as t✱he revised structure, will bring much-needed improvements. 

McL𒀰aren Racing CEO Zak Brown told BBC Sport: “Steve is immensely respected, very well known and has a relationship with everyone in the pit lane.

"In roles like that, do they have the technical skillset? Yes. Do they have the credibility ♕and relationships? ౠYes. 

“So he ticks the boxes where I don't think a single t🐬eam will be questioning the decision and the rationale.”

Meanwhile, Haas team principal Guen🌜ther Steiner said: "It's fantastic that F1 made him available because he has been in F1 so long,💧 so he knows a lot of history of what happened in different situations.

"That is the biggest thing that some of the people who came in missed -♚ the history of the last 20 years. It is very difficult to teach.

"The guys who are doing it are not bad people, but they just don't have the experience. If you try to learn 30 years of history of rule-making, that takes a few years and we expect these guys to go in the seat and make the r🥃ight decisions.

"They don't know what they don't know, while Steve kn🧔ows a lot of stuff, what happened when. It's better to have this not to create controversies."