Steve Nielsen: F1 veteran appointed FIA sporting director

Steve Nielsen spent more than a decade working with the team now known as AlpineFormula 1 veteran Steve Nielsen has taken a new role with governing body the FIA with the aim of fixing the sport's race-management problems.Nielsen has left a senior F1 position to become FIA sporting director. The 58-year-old Briton will oversee race-control operations, which have been at the centre of a series of controversies in recent years.Nikolas Tombazis, formerly FIA single-seater technical director, has been promoted to single-seater director.In a new management structure announced by the FIA, Tombazis has been given a new position that puts him…

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