Sergio Perez car after crashing in Monaco qualifying
Sergio Perez crashed his Red Bull in Q3 at the Monaco Grand Prix which meant the qualifying session was stopped

There is a possibility that Perez crashed during Monaco Grand Prix qualification in May.

"I didn't have anyone who said we wanted to investigate it from our side," said the president.

We are more than happy if there is an investigation. I am willing to go into it.

Ben said he would talk to world champion Max Verstappen.

Verstappen refused to let Perez by for sixth place at Interlagos because he didn't want to upset his team-mates.

Multiple sources have said that the Dutch believes that Perez crashed in Monaco in order to prevent Verstappen from getting a place on the grid.

Perez won the race after race leader Charles Leclerc made a strategy error and was overtaken by Verstappen.

Perez characterized the claim as speculative andrumours on Thursday.

The F1 rules forbid unsporting actions and leave theFIA a range of options if it discovers them.

Team harmony has already been badly affected by the row in Brazil and Red Bull is unlikely to give any information on the matter.

The Abu Dhabi report

Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen battle at 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Verstappen passed Hamilton on the last lap in Abu Dhabi to take his maiden world title amid huge controversy last season

Lewis Hamilton lost the world title to Verstappen after Michael Masi failed to apply the rules correctly in the title decider.

The report into the race was published at the beginning of the season.

The report did not adequately address what happened in Abu Dhabi.

"Maybe the report was not enough but it was a good attempt at transparency and now you see every time we have an issue, transparency."

He pointed to the controversy at the Japanese Grand Prix over the deployment of a recovery vehicle on track in heavy rain and poor visibility and his intervention to address the dangerous "bouncing" or porpoising of some cars earlier this year.

According to a report in Japan, only one of the two race directors who have been rotating the role this year will be retained until the end of the season.

The level of bouncing was brought to the attention of the FIA with the introduction of a measurement and other rule changes.

Ben Sulayem said that the issue they had in Japan was on the website before the race.

I made calls to 20 drivers. I talked to 10 principals. We came up with a new amendment after listening to them.

Addressing issues with race control

Suzuka recovery vehicle
The FIA has said it made mistakes in the deployment of a recovery vehicle on track during the Japanese Grand Prix in October

The governing body of F1 has come in for a lot of criticism this year.

A series of incidents and interventions by race directors have angered drivers and teams.

He said that he was in a reorganization.

After Abu Dhabi, he instigated a programme to improve F1 race direction.

He said that phase one of the programme would be finished soon and that there would be something at the beginning of next year.

He insisted his relationship with the drivers was good, and said the same about F1, after repeated claims that the commercial rights holder was unhappy with the actions of the FIA.

Ben said it was a marriage. It's going to last a long time.

He said that people assumed there was a split when he said that the three sprint races would be increased to six. I had a good laugh about it.

According to sources, Ben asked for more funding from F1 in return for his agreement. He wanted to find out if it would cause an extra load on the officials.

He said that people didn't understand the pressure that went into the officials.

Ben said he was in a good professional and personal relationship with F.

A meeting of the F1 Commission on Friday agreed to take a comprehensive review of the sporting regulations.

It started a study to see if the use of wheel arches could be used to reduce the spray from cars in wet weather.

The cost cap and other matters

FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem
Ben Sulaymen's first year as FIA president has been dogged by conflict with F1 teams and drivers

Ben Sulaymen said a big review was being undertaken into what had happened this season after criticism of the handling of Red Bull's breaching of the budget cap last season.

What is the use of having this regulation if you don't have the manpower to police it?

We gained a lot of knowledge. What will happen in the first year? Some of the other teams would like them to be hanged. What place do you draw the line? We don't know if we want to get rid of them or not.

We learned a lot from what we did in September/ October, but it should have been earlier.

Red Bull didn't like the appointment of Shaila-Ann Rao as the interim secretary general for sport.

According to sources, she will lose her position in the near future.

She is the interim secretary general, according to Ben. Interim is what it means. I see Shaila-Ann's intelligence on big decisions. My people will be defended.

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