Malcolm Wilson will take up the post of FIA Deputy president for sport following a vote at the FIA’s Extraordinary General Assembly in Macau.
Wilson was nominated to take the position by FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem in April after Robert Reid, the 2001 World Rally Championship co-driver champion, resigned from the role citing a ‘standards breakdown’ at the FIA.
The FIA has today confirmed that an overwhelming majority of voters were in favour of electing Wilson into the position.
Wilson is a leading figure in British motorsport and big hitter in the world of rallying, both as a driver and entrepreneur. His long relationship with Ford netted him the British Rally Championship crown in 1994.
Wilson also set up the M-Sport operation that has run Ford’s World Rally programme since 1997. The team won the WRC title for manufacturers in 2006, 2007 and 2017.
M-Sport latterly ran Bentley’s Continental GT3 racing programme that netted victory in the 2020 Bathurst 12 Hours, and has supplied the TOCA engine to the British Touring Car Championship since 2022.
