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Marcin Budkowski - immediate effect resignation to FIA

Who´s the man that suddenly said goodbye to the FIA? Why did he?

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Marcin Budkowski - immediate effect resignation to FIA
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Perhaps you haven´t even heard about Marcin Budkowski just yet, so let us make the proper introductions.

He´s not in the spotlight of the Formula One world, you won´t see him being the center of attention by the media so by now, you must have guessed he is not a driver, a team principal nor a celebrity walking around the Paddock line, and you´re right.

Marcin Budkowski specializes in aerodynamic engineering haven previously worked with teams such as Ferrari or McLaren.

He´s indeed a relevant figure inside Formula One particularly since 2014, when he joined The International Automobile Federation (FIA).

Early this year (February) Budkowski has been appointed as Head of the Technical department, a role assumed by Charlie Whiting (64) since 1988. Now, and with the Polish resignation, the role has come back into the hands of to race director Charlie Whiting.

Budkowski (40) has been put on a “gardening leave” for a period of three months, and there haven´t been any announcements by the FIA on what led to his with immediate effectresignation.

Lately, changes have been established by the FIA with the creation of a new department for all governing body´s single-seater championship to it´s technical division, which also brought Gilles Simon, former Honda F1 engine consultant, as Head of the Technical solutions.

During a recent interview with the New York Times this month, Budkowski had talked about Formula One regulations.

Everybody would like to have five pages of technical regulations, rather than 100 or whatever,” he said.

The problem is, it’s a very complex sport, and there are a lot of very clever people looking at it,” he said. “When we set regulations with the teams, people start to say ‘O.K., you can say this, do this, we might do that, some we might do that.’ There are more and more layers coming. Then you try to prevent people from abusing the regulations.”

It’s the same for the sporting regulations. You can see the complexity of some of the regulations governing tire choice or racing conditions. They come from simple regulations, but then a loophole gets abused and then we say ‘Oh, we need to add this paragraph to avoid this,’ and then it starts to interfere with another clause, or you need to make exceptions to it, and it gets awfully complicated.”

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