Sainz Sr. considering run for FIA president
- F1
- May 10, 2025
Carlos Sainz Mr. has announced that he is considering a career for the presidency of the FIA in this year’s elections.
The two -champion world champion has continued to compete in the Dakar rally and became his oldest winner in 2024 while playing the victory with Audi. Now, 63, Sainz, father of the Williams Formula 1 corridor, Carlos Sainz Jr., says he has bones to weigh the possibility of presenting himself as a candidate against the current head Mohammed Ben Sulayem, whose first term has a base for controversy.
“There are many reasons, but I have bone driving for more than 40 years and this sport has given me everything,” Sainz told Motorsport.com. “This possibility [of being president] He has been in my mind for some time, not very deeply, but now I think it could be the right time in my career for me to take the step. I am sure I can do a good job and gather an excellent team to return to the sports part of what it has given me.
“I have accumulated a lot of experience in this sport over the years and I am sure that I can bring new and interesting things, to strengths and develop sports and the automobile world.”
Sainz says that he is currently evaluating how much support he is likely to receive from the community of motor racing before he potentially presents himself, and insists that there would be no conflict of interest because his son competes in Formula 1.
“I have my history and people know me well enough to understand that this will not be a problem,” he said. “Obviously, I will have to give up my role with Carlos and his career, but this is not a problem at all.
“He is no longer a child: he has been in F1 for a decade and we both know that I continue with this project that our relationship will change, of course. FIA is a very serious entity and there will be no conflict.”
Sainz is the first potential candidate to publicly establish interest in running for the presidency, with Ben Sulayem still does not announce that a second mandate will be announced. Ben Sulayem is expected to continue, but he has had to deal with a series of high -level exits from the governing body since made at the end of 2021, and the FIA has faced a critical relationship with its leader its mild.
