Jean Todt named as new FIA President

h3000

wrc.com wrote:

Former WRC co-driver and team manager Jean Todt has today been elected as the new President of motorsport’s governing body, the FIA, succeeding the federation’s current head Max Mosley.

The 63 year old Frenchman was voted in by the FIA’s General Assembly at its annual meeting in Paris and is set to undertake a four-year term in the position.

Todt beat rival candidate, 1981 World Rally Champion Ari Vatanen, by 135 votes to 49. There were 12 abstentions or invalid votes.

Voting in the General Assembly was made by secret ballot. The votes were counted in private by the FIA legal department, under the supervision of scrutineers proposed by the two presidential candidates and designated by the General Assembly.

The entire voting procedure was supervised by an external Huissier de Justice (French state-appointed public witness).

guardian.co.uk wrote:

Jean Todt has today been elected president of the International Automobile Federation. The former Ferrari team principal team will succeed Max Mosley as head of world motorsport's governing body.

Todt's election was confirmed at FIA headquarters in Paris this morning following a vote of the 221 national motoring organisations that make up the body. He beat Finland's former world rally champion Ari Vatanen to the post.

The Frenchman has spoken in recent days of his "quiet confidence" in winning the election, an outcome helped substantially by the public backing of Mosley, who is stepping down after 16 years in charge of the FIA. That support, in turn, has angered Vatanen who believes he has been campaigned against by the powers-that-be and at one stage even threatened legal action against what he perceived to be a corrupt and unfair election process.

Todt joined Ferrari in 1993 and was in charge during the era Michael Schumacher was winning multiple titles for the Italian team.

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Ghost Train

a little bit surprised

EvilMonkey

Not a bit surprised

smooch71

Bloody marvellous.

No change there then. Max lives on

Slutmonkey57b

Prepare for a bold new era of change, as the FIA is taken over by an inveterate cheat, liar, shameless manipulator, vendetta-hungry man with a firm love of "one rule for me, another rule for you".

Wait.

Oh well looks like Max will be appointed "Overseer" of F1 any day now and we can all watch as he whips his enemies into the ground.

dcr22B

Formel Eins Uber Alles eh Max! :mad:

Cookie_Monster

Pity that Finnish guy didn't get it. can't remember his name... but would have done a much better job.

h3000

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Pity that Finnish guy didn't get it. can't remember his name... but would have done a much better job.

Ari Vatanen

One of the greatest rally drivers of all time.


I would have loved to see him get the job too but it was not to be.

Oblomov

Formel Eins Uber Alles eh Max!

Ve hav vays of makin you obey ze ruules.

Slutmonkey57b

Oblomov wrote: »

Ve hav vays of makin you obey ze ruules.

Ve haff vays off Makink der rooles up to soot ar zelves

is more accurate in this case.

Mike Litoris

Oh dear.:mad: It was never going to go the other way but you cant help feeling cheated.

mickdw

Rally ireland no more then I guess. Wasnt the head of rally ireland very friendly with Vatanen and publically supported him and was also suppposed to be liked up for a prime job in world rally if Vatanen got in.

AfterDusk

Lot's of ferrari bias in F1 now too :mad:

smooch71

neil2304 wrote: »

Lot's of ferrari bias in F1 now too :mad:

I don't think so.

Ferrari's a very different team now since Todt left.

More likely lots of Max bias in F1 now

Bobby04

mickdw wrote: »

Rally ireland no more then I guess. Wasnt the head of rally ireland very friendly with Vatanen and publically supported him and was also suppposed to be liked up for a prime job in world rally if Vatanen got in.

+1

John Naylor was being linked with a vice president of FIA role if Vatanen had won.
Instead, Stoker in the UK is aligned with Todt, and so you have to wonder how the Rally Ireland vs Rally GB decision will go in the coming years

Mike Litoris

neil2304 wrote: »

Lot's of ferrari bias in F1 now too :mad:

...well it'll be a change from all the McLaren bias.:P