Sainz replaces F1 world champion Vettel as GPDA director

Williams driver Carlos Sainz has changed Sebastian Vettel as a director of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Affiliation – becoming a member of George Russell as the one two lively racers concerned in managing the physique.

Russell was the one lively member of the System 1 drivers’ pursuits organisation since four-time world champion Vettel retired on the finish of 2022, when he was racing for Aston Martin.

The GPDA has been led by ex-F1 driver and double Le Mans winner Alexander Wurz as chairman since 2014, with Russell becoming a member of in 2021 – after solely two seasons competing in grand prix racing.

Together with Wurz, Russell and Sainz, the GPDA’s administration is accomplished by their fellow director Anastasia Fowle, who handles the organisation’s authorized pursuits.

“I’m keen about my sport and suppose we drivers have a duty to do all we will to work with the stakeholders to ahead the game in lots of elements,” stated Sainz.

“So, I am very glad and proud to do my half by taking up the director’s function within the GPDA.”

The GPDA was first fashioned again in 1961 with the purpose of enhancing security requirements to guard drivers and motorsport occasion attendees in an period when racing dangers have been significantly greater.

It was reformed in 1994 after the deaths of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger at that yr’s Imola race and has been lively ever since.

In recent times it has been concerned in numerous non-racing issues – such because the close to drivers’ strike following the missile assault on the 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

Final yr, the GPDA additionally known as for FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem to deal with drivers like adults amid the governing physique’s ongoing clampdown on driver expression.

Listing of GPDA administrators