The FIA has misplaced two of its senior figures, as its director of communications Luke Skipper and secretary common of mobility Jacob Bangsgaard have resigned.
Each are mentioned to have left the organisation to pursue different pursuits, however their departures come at a time when FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s fashion of management has once more been within the highlight.
Ben Sulayem triggered controversy forward of the Singapore Grand Prix as he called for drivers to swear less, with a subsequent sanction handed down on Max Verstappen for cursing in a press convention prompting protests from the Dutchman.
Now, Ben Sulayem has also taken aim at the British media, after suggesting that he has been “convicted” by unspecified protection.
There was no official phrase on the explanations for the departures of Skipper and Bangsgaard, though each have been high-profile figures throughout the FIA.
Skipper joined in 2022 because the FIA’s first director of communications and public affairs.
He had enormous expertise within the enterprise, having beforehand been a director of public affairs for communication agency Weber Shandwick as he labored with a number of worldwide purchasers. He had additionally been the Scottish Nationwide Occasion’s chief of employees on the UK Parliament.

Mohammed Ben Sulayem, President, FIA
Photograph by: Steven Tee / Motorsport Photographs
Bangsgaard had been appointed because the FIA’s Secretary Basic for Car Mobility and Tourism in 2023, having turn out to be an influential determine in mobility via being the founder and CEO of European Coverage Analysis since 1997.
Previous to his most up-to-date function, he was Director Basic of FIA Area I, and had additionally labored for the FIA Basis in London as director of worldwide relations.
The departure of Skipper and Bangsgaard comes within the wake of a collection of main FIA departures over the course of the previous 12 months.
Final winter it was introduced that sporting director Steve Nielsen and single-seater technical director Tim Goss had each resigned from their roles.
Nielsen has since returned to a position within FOM, whereas Goss is due to start work imminently at the RB F1 team as its new chief technical officer.
Their exits got here shortly after Deborah Mayer left as head of the FIA Girls in Motorsport Fee.
This February, it emerged that governance and regulatory director Pierre Ketterer and head of business authorized affairs Edward Floydd, each of whom had a hand in Concorde Settlement negotiations on behalf of the FIA, had left.
In Could, it was introduced that the FIA’s first CEO Natalie Robyn was also leaving the governing body to pursue alternatives elsewhere.
She had been appointed by Ben Sulayem in November 2022 as a part of a giant effort to reform the administration construction of the organisation.