Confusion Over FIA’s Bahrain Vote at BetLM

Con­fu­sion over FIA’s Bahrain vote

The FIA have denied claims that the WMSC never voted on Bahrain’s fate, insist­ing that a “show of hands” had in fact taken place.

With many shocked by the deci­sion to rein­state the island kingdom’s F1 race, there had been rumours that per­haps a vote never actu­ally took place.

How­ever, the FIA insist their 26-man World Motor Sport Coun­cil panel did have a way.

A FIA spokesman told Tele­graph Sport that ’”a show of hands” had in fact taken place.’

How­ever, the news­pa­per adds that ‘it remains unclear whether a for­mal count was ever taken, with other sources sug­gest­ing there were absten­tions among the 26 members.’

While it is not known who put their hand up in favour of the grand prix tak­ing place, the Tele­graph reports that it is ‘under­stood that Sheikh Abdul­lah bin Isa Al-Khalifa, the pres­i­dent of the Bahrain Motor Fed­er­a­tion, and Ste­fano Domeni­cali, the team prin­ci­pal of Fer­rari, were two who did put their hands up, both vot­ing in favour of the race on Oct 30.’

If Fer­rari did in fact say yes to Bahrain, it remains unclear how this will affect their rela­tion­ship with the For­mula One Teams’ Asso­ci­a­tion, who were not in favour of extend­ing the calendar.

Domeni­cali may have also angered his own dri­ver as Felipe Massa recently stated that he, along with his fel­low dri­vers, had con­cerns over safety and other issues regard­ing Bahrain.

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