{"id":363273,"date":"2025-12-23T06:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/363273\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T06:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:40:13","slug":"deputy-race-director-leaves-formula-1-and-the-fia-ahead-of-the-26-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/363273\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy race director leaves Formula 1 and the FIA ahead of the &#8217;26 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claire Dubbelman is leaving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/fia\" title=\"FIA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIA<\/a>. She served as deputy race director in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/formula-1\" title=\"Formula 1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1<\/a> in recent seasons, but will soon start working in Saudi Arabia, where she will join the local motorsport federation.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbelman already has a rich career in motorsport behind her. For instance, she previously served as the championship manager of the FIA Formula 3 European Championship. She joined the FIA in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>At the motorsport federation, she became a race director for the first time in her career. For the 2024 season, she was promoted to deputy race director and took on a position within Formula 1\u2019s sporting department.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/start-signapore.jpg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto h-auto\" alt=\"start-singapore\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: RacePictures<\/p>\n<p>First woman to gain an F1 race director license<\/p>\n<p>She also became the first woman to receive an FIA Race Director Super License to lead a Formula 1 Grand Prix as race director. However, this never occurred, as race director Rui Marques was never absent from an event.<\/p>\n<p>Her time at the FIA has now come to an end, as she is moving to Riyadh. For what is likely a princely salary, she will work at the Saudi Automobile and Motorcycle Federation, one of the organizers of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear who will take on Dubbelman&#8217;s prevous position. Tim Malyon has been mentioned as a possible successor.<\/p>\n<p>GPblog&#8217;s F1 Paddock UpdateWant to stay up-to-date with what happens in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1\" title=\"F1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1<\/a> paddock? Then GPblog&#8217;s F1 Paddock Update video is the perfect way to do it. Subscribe to GPblog&#8217;s YouTube channel and turn on notifications to never miss the latest episodes.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to follow us on Spotify as well!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claire Dubbelman is leaving the FIA. She served as deputy race director in Formula 1 in recent seasons,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,28673,3754,576,577,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-363273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-f1-news","12":"tag-fia","13":"tag-formula-1","14":"tag-formula1","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}