Jean Todt elected as new President of the FIA
Jean Todt has been elected as the President of the FIA which is the world’s motorsport governing body. The Frenchman was contesting against Finland’s Ari Vatanen who is a former world rally champion. Todt replaces Max Mosley and won the elections by 86 votes from a total of 184. Jean Todt was the executive director for the Ferrari Formula 1 team before serving as Ferrari’s CEO until 2008.
He then remained with the company with a “special appointment” and left a year later. Todt will be joined by Nick Craw who will serve as the President of the Senate and Brian Gibbons, Deputy President Automobile Mobility & Tourism. Malaysia’s Tunku Mudzaffar bin Tunku Mustapha who is the chairman of the AAM will serve as a Senate Member.
October 23, 2009 @ 9:56 pm
F1 is getting Malaysian flavour..
October 23, 2009 @ 10:54 pm
Datuk Michelle Yeoh becomes Lady Boss
October 23, 2009 @ 11:12 pm
then ferrari will win all the races next championship..lol
October 24, 2009 @ 1:47 am
oh no say bye bye to f1
October 24, 2009 @ 10:37 am
Ya… he might be bias toward Ferrari…
But… will Datuk Michelle use her KungFu (if you know what i mean*) to “make” Jean a little bit bias to Lotus F1…??? hahahaha…..
October 24, 2009 @ 11:50 am
NOOOO!!!!
October 24, 2009 @ 12:17 pm
Bias to ferrari? You must be kidding me. He left on a bad note, Luca wanted an italian to lead not french.
All the best to ferrari next year! Perhaps 1 Malaysia F1will get an upper hand since hes practically malaysian now
October 24, 2009 @ 12:41 pm
It’s Michelle doing all the action behind the scene. He’s just a puppet!
October 25, 2009 @ 3:15 pm
michelle yeoh is hot
October 25, 2009 @ 7:23 pm
Great, finally something good has been done by FIA, Mosley finally has more time to engage his Nazi-themed prostitutes.
Give us back the nice F1 car we used to see, no slick tires.
October 26, 2009 @ 7:46 am
This mean more Ferrari biased FIA decision after this?
October 26, 2009 @ 10:06 am
I believe Todt is no longer with Ferrari. Otherwise it would be a conflict of interest