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FIA president threatened with legal action over WMSC controversy

Mar.6 The FIA is plunging deeper into controversy as Motorsport UK chairman David Richards has issued a scathing open letter, threatening legal action against the organisation and its embattled president, Mohammed Ben Sulayem. Richards, well known in the Formula 1 paddock, describes it as an 'erosion of accountability and good governance', following a contentious recent World Motor Sport Council meeting where he and FIA deputy president for motorsport Robert Reid were barred from participating after refusing to sign a stringent non-disclosure agreement (NDA). The FIA claimed the NDA was standard practice to protect confidentiality, but Richards' letter, published in Motorsport UK's online...
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