Ben Sulayem has dominated the F1 media headlines during the off-season over a🅰 range of issues.

He started the year off by for new teams to♛ join the sport by opening the "expressions of interest🥂"

their intention to join F1 by 2026 - something that was met by a lukewarm reception by༒ F1.

The drama continued as he took to ꧂social media again to question the “inflated” by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wea𒅌lth fund.

His comments didn’t go down well with F1 or its owners Liberty Media, with the sport’s lawyers writing to the FIA to criticise Ben Sulayem💫 for commenting on s🐻uch matters.

Things got worse for Ben Sulayem when a report by British newspaper The Times168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: revealed a༒ number of sexist comments towards women on his old personal website

With the F1 seas💞on starting in just over a month in Bahrain, Vasseur is confident the drama surrounding the FIA president will calm down once the racing action gets underway.

“I'm really convinced that as soon as we will put the cars on track, this will disappear a little bit off the screen,” Vasseur said. “For sure we'll have discussions but, as always, I hope that we'll be able to stay 🥀focused on 🧜the sporting side.”

While Vasseur has a point, it’s unlikely the drama surrounding Ben Sulayem will go awa🍬y, particularly given the FIA’s stance on p𒅌olitical gestures.

It’s likely going to be a question that is raised to the drivers, like Lewis Hamilton, during the early days of pre-season t𓂃esting.