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.

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Harvinder Singh Sidhu thinks there's nothing better than Formula 1, not even sliced bread. Having written about cars since 2006, he plunged head first into the industry out of a passion for all things four-wheeled and everything in between. The F1 enthusiast has been following the sport since 1999 and has been keeping up with it since. In between races he keeps himself busy as the host of the Driven motoring show and as our version of the Joker.

 

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  • F1 is getting Malaysian flavour..

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  • narrowband on Oct 24, 2009 at 6:54 am

    Datuk Michelle Yeoh becomes Lady Boss

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  • keteSorong on Oct 24, 2009 at 7:12 am

    then ferrari will win all the races next championship..lol

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  • Mazda 3 MPS on Oct 24, 2009 at 9:47 am

    oh no say bye bye to f1

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  • oricon666 on Oct 24, 2009 at 6:37 pm

    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…..

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  • osh_kosh on Oct 24, 2009 at 7:50 pm

    NOOOO!!!!

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  • carlover (Member) on Oct 24, 2009 at 8:17 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 :)

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  • Black Dog on Oct 24, 2009 at 8:41 pm

    It's Michelle doing all the action behind the scene. He's just a puppet!

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  • Mazda 3 MPS on Oct 25, 2009 at 11:15 pm

    michelle yeoh is hot

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  • isharestuff on Oct 26, 2009 at 3:23 am

    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.

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  • azrai on Oct 26, 2009 at 3:46 pm

    This mean more Ferrari biased FIA decision after this?

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  • Ferruccio on Oct 26, 2009 at 6:06 pm

    I believe Todt is no longer with Ferrari. Otherwise it would be a conflict of interest

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