The FIA di🌱d not reply to the angry lette🔯r sent by F1, complaining about Ben Sulayem’s comments over its potential sale price, according to Sky.

After Saudi Arabia failed with a $20 billion bid to b💖uy F1, the FIA president questioned ﷺthe huge price tag, so F1 lawyers wrote him a letter accusing him of “interfering”.

Sky’s Craig Slater reported: “The FIA, the governing body, does not have a day-to-day commercial role in the running of the sport. F1 subsequently sent a letter to the FIA, making it very plain they thought this was an unacceptable thing for th💜e president of the FIA to do.

“I can reveal that no reply has come from the FIA to F1 but I can say that positive conversations contin✅ue between the two institutions. They are functioning normally🐓 as they need to do to keep the sport operating properly.

“I’m told there are positive conversations at all levels between🌄 those two organisations.

“People are still telling me they have issues with the kind of personal style of leadership Mohammed Ben Sꦰulayem has at ꩵthe FIA .

• Why oneꦉ F1 team boss is “convinced” Ben Sulayem 🎉drama will stop soon

“These🐭 are the high-ranking individuals at a number of Fo🌳rmula One teams. So let's see how that develops.

“There is still this friction, maybe Mohammed Ben Sulayem seems to be𓂃 gesturing one way and Formula One and the drivers to an extent🦹 in some areas are pulling in another direction. 

“And that will have to be res🦩olved in the short term for the sport to function properly.”

F1’s owners Liberty Media want to get rid of Ben Sulayem and have a replacement lined up - David Richards, the🦋 former BAR and Benetton team principal and Motorsport UK 🐲chairman - according to .

Ben Sulayem found himself at the centre of a separate controve💮rsy when past sexist comments emerged from an ol☂d website.