PARIS, Dec 3 : Formula One's governing body can return sole candidate Mohammed Ben Sulayem as president next week but faces a legal challenge in February, a lawyer for would-be opponent Laura Villars said on Wednesday.

Swiss-French racer Villars, 28, had sought an emergency judgment from the Judicial Court of Paris seeking to suspend the election after FIA statutes prevented her and fellow-candidate Tim Mayer, an American, from standing.

The election is scheduled for Tashkent on December 12 with Ben Sulayem set to serve a second four-year term.

“The urgent applications judge held that this dispute must be heard on the merits, and we will therefore continue this litigation against the FIA before the judges sitting on the merits. A first hearing is scheduled for 16 February 2026," said Vi

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