A little less than four years after his appointment by Liberty Media at the head of Formula 1, Chase Carey will bow out at the end of the year.
With the feeling of duty accomplished since the successor of Bernie Ecclestone has managed, with the FIA, to save the 2020 season despite the Covid-19, and above all, to obtain the signing of new Concorde Agreements by the ten teams of the discipline for the period 2021-2025.
In all likelihood, the man with the mustache will be replaced at his post by an old acquaintance of Formula 1, Stefano Domenicali.
If the information, unveiled by the specialized site
RaceFans
, has not been confirmed by F1, the former director of Scuderia Ferrari (2008-2014) should take up his duties by the end of the year.
Domenicali, 55, currently holds the post of Chairman of the FIA Single-Seat Commission.
He is best known for his career at Ferrari, which he joined in the early 90s. Rising through the ranks one by one, he became, in 2002, the team's sporting director, in full supremacy of Michael Schumacher and the teams. red racing cars (five consecutive world titles).
Passed by Audi then Lamborghini
At the beginning of 2008, he succeeded Jean Todt at the head of the Scuderia with, in the process, a title of world constructors' champion, the last of the Italian firm.
After close to a new coronation with Fernando Alonso in 2010 and 2012, beaten for four and then three points only by Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull, Domenicali finally resigned from his post in 2014 after a failed start to the season.
Appointed chairman of the single-seaters commission at the FIA, he then worked at Audi before taking the head of Lamborghini in 2016, Ferrari's main competitor in the prestigious sports car segment.
He will soon find the circuits and the cars of the Prancing Horse, in a completely different role.
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