Mar.3 (GMM) Former F1 race director Niels Wittich stays baffled by his abrupt late-2024 dismissal from the FIA.
“It got here as a shock to me too,” he informed Sky Deutschland final Friday in Bahrain.
“For me there have been no indicators that one thing wasn’t working or that there was a motive to make a change in personnel. Very sudden – to this present day!”
Wittich was sacked at a vital second on the tail finish of the world championship earlier than the Las Vegas GP, leaving his last-minute alternative to additionally deal with the F2 and F3 races.
“Up to now, no motive has been given to me,” he reveals.
Wittich says he final spoke intimately to FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem – who sacked him – months earlier on the Chinese language GP.
“I can’t say that we clashed in any means or had a damaging relationship,” he mentioned. “I did certainly attempt to discover out what occurred, however nobody might give me a solution.
“I suppose Method 1 is typically fast-moving on the subject of personnel, so I’ve to just accept it for what it’s.”
Wittich has now moved into the world of officialdom in GT racing.
