Wheatley will be replaced by Emilia Abel as junior road sport director and supported by Dieter Rencken, who moves across from his Formula 1 role into an executive advisor role, and both will report to FIA general manager Alberto Villarreal.
Abel, also an FIA steward, had previously served as road sport deputy director and head of off-road categories. She was also president of the FIA road sport committee and vice president of the FIA's closed road commission, and is head of the Estonian Autosport Union Rally Committee and Clerk of the Course of the Ypres Rally.
