...Jean Todt.
World Rally Championship - News - Jean Todt named as new FIA President
Ari Vatanen lost badly (Todt had 2x the vote).
...Jean Todt.
World Rally Championship - News - Jean Todt named as new FIA President
Ari Vatanen lost badly (Todt had 2x the vote).
I'm dropping out to create a company that starts with motorcycles, then cars, and forty years later signs a legendary Brazilian driver who has a public and expensive feud with his French teammate.
Run for your life!
I'm afraid this is not going to be good.
Without even considering the rumored favors done by FIA to Ferrari the previous years, the way he left Ferrari without a reason at the beginning of this year, and then they way everyone was so happy about his candidacy was a bit fishy.
Nothing changed in my book.
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I'm not thrilled but not really disappointed either. I suppose it was a win-win situation, the way Mosley has behaved lately I can't understand how he could be selected to lead anything, let alone a big international organisation such as the FIA.
I doubt the FIA will significantly favor Ferrari in Todt's command. It's so expected by the critics that I don't think it could be done without launching the next big scandal.
The fact it already happened, and that the second after Mosley said he wouldn't have applied for a new candidacy he also suggested that Todt would have been a good successor to him is enough to be disappointed.
It seems to me that everything was decided some months ago, at the beginning of the year, even before of recent problems or issues of democratic elections and so on, break away series and other stuff.
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Well to be fair to Todt he is a good manager of big organization. His track record speaks for itself. And this is essentially a manager's job. Yes the Ferrari leaning will probably be suggested, but with FOTA all the teams are aligned anyway, and they govern amongst themselves, so if anything the work might be simpler this way....
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I'm just afraid his thinking may not be that/enough different from Mosley's.
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I'm thouroughly disgusted.
After God (French version), we had Hitler (British version), and now Napoléon Buonaparte (French version).
3 dictators in a row - hurray for the FIA, the democratic pinnacle of motorsports.
I'm 100% sure that had the real racesports lovers voted, Vatanen would have prevailed "fingers in the nose". Now, everything will go from bad to worse. In five years time, F1 is a super-formula Ferrari...
Not exactly unexpected, is it?
Lack of charisma can be fatal.
Visca Catalunya!
There is another version of Napolean than french?
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Separated at birth?lol
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