168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen has expressed his surprise at the sudden departure of F1 race director Niels Wittich.

F1’s governing body the FIA annou꧒nced Wittich had left his role with immediate effect on theཧ eve of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, stating the German had stepped down in order to “pursue new opportunities”.

But Wittich claimed he had not left voluntarily and instead had been fired with three races to go. He has been replaced by Formuꦡla 2 and Formula 3 race director Rui Marques.

The timing of the FIA🍰’s decision has surprised F1 drivers, including three-time world champion Verstappen, who told Sky Sports F1: “I think everyone was very surprised to see that with three races to go. But you have to ask the FIA.”

Following the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, Grand Prix Drivers’ Association released a statement urging the FIA to treat its members “like adults” and for president Mohammed Ben Sulayem to “consider his own tone and language when talking to our member drivers, 𒐪or indeed about them”.

Verstappen, who can win his fourth consecutive world championship this w🍸eekend in Las Vegas, wantꦍs progress to be made sooner rather than later.

“We just wanted to send a🎉 letter out to make sure th🧜at everyone is aware of our concerns and what we want to work on and we’ll see what comes out of that,” Verstappen explained.

“At the moment of course nothing has happened. I think there was a lot going on with the FIA anyway, that they had to deal.💮 We’ll see now in the coming races and we’ll keep engaging. We’ll keep talking to them and go from there.”

GPDA director168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: George Russell said in the pre-event press conference that the FIA is yet to respond to the letter and admitted the drivers are “a little bit fed up with the w🔥hole situation”.

"Getting things to change or promises upheld seems slightly more challenging," he said. "Maybe the FIA or the president 𓂃did not reco꧒gnise how seriously we all felt.

"Over the course of 20 races this year and even last year we spoke about a number of topics, all the drivers, we feel pretty similar, we know what we want from the sport and the directions it has beeওn heading and we feel we want a small U-turn on a ♈number of topics and we want to work together with the FIA on this.

"We felt that has not been happening🔯 at all from the president🔯."