Mosely to step down in October
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F1 Racing said:
Motor racing Chief Max Mosley will step down in October, he told the International Automobile Federation (FIA) general assembly on Thursday.
In the last year Mosley, 64, has driven through a swathe of changes to Formula One racing in the face of opposition from many teams who claimed the changes were a knee-jerk reaction to slumping TV ratings in the wake of Michael Schumacher's seemingly unending success at Ferrari.
Further reforms agreed in May for the 2008 season will see a new engine format, a single tyre supplier and a ban on electronic driver aids. Mosley says the changes will ensure closer racing and more overtaking.
He claimed in May the threat of a breakaway by leading constructors Ferrari, Mercedes, BMW Williams, Renault and Jaguar had been averted. The big five teams, having formed a group called the Grand Prix World Championships (GPWC), had threatened to create their own championship if they were not given a greater share of Formula One revenue.
The current Concorde Agreement comes to an end in 2008 when Mosley says the kind of unanimous voting required for rule changes will no longer be required. He said FIA will have more control.
And reports last month claimed Mosley was lining up Ferrari boss Jean Todt to succeed him. Mosley has reportedly written to the member clubs of the general assembly backing Todt's suitablity.
Mosley played a leading role in the Formula One war of 1980-82 between FISA (FIA's sporting subsidiary) and the constructors organisation FOCA, which led to the Concorde Agreement which effectively put control of all commercial interests into FOCA chief Bernie Ecclestone's hands.
Mosley, who was FOCA's lawyer from 1977, ousted Jean-Marie Balestre as President of the FISA in 1991 and stood down a year later when he was re-elected for a four-year term.
He then merged the FIA and the FISA and in October 1993 became the FIA President for a four year period. He was re-elected in October 1997 and again in 2001.
So who do you think will replace him?
having read lots about JT (naturally we Ferrari fans want to know who is running the joint
) he would make the obvious, and probably only, unbiased head of the FIA and be so unlike his previous French administrator JMB that the sport could only be better for it.
The one fault in JT is the trait I most love in the man, his egalitarianism. He travels to the GPs down the back of the plane with the mechanics and cleaners and instills a spirit in the team members which I'm sure Ron Dennis will never do.
Imagine if they made RD the head ringmaster, boy would that cause some trouble....he'd probably be assassinated in the first week by his OWN people!!
It needs to be somebody who will stand up to any of the manufacturers as MM does and tell them this is what's got to happen and you've got a certain date to come up with a reason not to do it or a better compromise and I think there are very few , if any people who can do this.
I'd vote for Derestrictor but he would be too easily swayed by someone in a flashy car with big tits
which would mean Ferrari would still get what they want.
It has to be someone who has raced at the highest level, understands world demographics, speaks several languages fluently and has won at least 5 world championships
) he would make the obvious, and probably only, unbiased head of the FIA and be so unlike his previous French administrator JMB that the sport could only be better for it. The one fault in JT is the trait I most love in the man, his egalitarianism. He travels to the GPs down the back of the plane with the mechanics and cleaners and instills a spirit in the team members which I'm sure Ron Dennis will never do.
Imagine if they made RD the head ringmaster, boy would that cause some trouble....he'd probably be assassinated in the first week by his OWN people!!
It needs to be somebody who will stand up to any of the manufacturers as MM does and tell them this is what's got to happen and you've got a certain date to come up with a reason not to do it or a better compromise and I think there are very few , if any people who can do this.
I'd vote for Derestrictor but he would be too easily swayed by someone in a flashy car with big tits
which would mean Ferrari would still get what they want. It has to be someone who has raced at the highest level, understands world demographics, speaks several languages fluently and has won at least 5 world championships
I think the JT would be very good for the job, forget the fact that he currently works for Ferrari, he has done so much that he would be ideal.
Failing that what about Dave Richards, know rallying , has worked in F1 for a while and speaks a lot of sense.
What about Brundle? Also talks a lot of sense and knows what it would take to make it more interesting (tyres, wings etc, etc).
Patrick Head is a reasonable choice, maybe this is why he moved within Williams, maybe he got a 'heads up' (sorry).
Maybe Schumacher will retire and decide to give it a go
D
Failing that what about Dave Richards, know rallying , has worked in F1 for a while and speaks a lot of sense.
What about Brundle? Also talks a lot of sense and knows what it would take to make it more interesting (tyres, wings etc, etc).
Patrick Head is a reasonable choice, maybe this is why he moved within Williams, maybe he got a 'heads up' (sorry).
Maybe Schumacher will retire and decide to give it a go
D
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