PARIS :Swiss-French racer Laura Villars has taken legal action to challenge rules that prevented her from standing against the incumbent Mohammed Ben Sulayem for president of motorsport's world governing body.

A vote was scheduled for December but Emirati Ben Sulayem is set to be returned unopposed to a second term at the helm of the International Automobile Federation (FIA).

Villars, 28, announced her surprise candidacy in September but was unable to put together the required slate of potential vice-presidents from an official list of 29 by an October 24 deadline.

Every candidate must name one person from all the FIA global regions but there is only one South American on the list, Fabiana Ecclestone, and she is already on Ben Sulayem's team.

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