One day ahead of a milestone FIA presidency election, we put the candidates side by side and have a look at what they have to offer. It is for the first time in 16 years that the FIA members will choose a president that is not Max Mosley.
Agreed.freedom_honda wrote:Bernie's issued an apology that isn't really an apology. All he did was wrote the word apology in the first sentence. Then the rest of the statement was bitching about politicians can't do their job properly. I'm really fed up with this guy honestly.
wow. these new rules benefit mosley entirely. I can see nominating 3-5 cabinet members, but 22? come on! not even the US president has to do that.WhiteBlue wrote:http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/76759
Some interesting information on the FiA presidential election details.
Bernie can go and join his pal Adolf, as far as I am concerned. And hopefully the FiA finds a suitable candidate to replace Max Mosley so that we do not have to watch the drama of a re-election campaign.No-one in the world thinks Hitler was a good guy. And even if Bernie was joking (which I am sure he was) it shows that he has no understanding of what the man in the street thinks about the world. One does not joke about Hitler, at least not to journalists from The Times.
What does it all mean? That is what I asked last week.
The answer is that it means that, whether we like it or not, the people who run F1 are not always in touch with reality.
And what counts is reality because reality is the person who puts his hand in his pocket and pays to go to see an F1 race… When all is said and done, the sport survives or dies on the very simple theory of “bums on seats”. If the sports drives away the fans, it will die.
What the sport needs is people who understand what people want. They do not want people praising Hitler, nor indulging in bizarre sexual rituals and justifying it as being normal.
They want racing cars going very fast, being driven by heroes…
I still want the Fin to win though, not Todt, and I'm a Ferrari fan. Just saying that Todt is from the old school, whereas the Fin sounds like fresh blood with fresh ideas. Perhaps he can even fix the WRC and have some good competition there with innovation back in the sport.ben_watkins wrote:Mad Max definatley not standing for re-election. Official.
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I think Bernie will find the pecking order for putting plans into action has Mao in the lead closely followed by Stalin.ben_watkins wrote:Bernie's latest excuse..
"I did not put Hitler up as a good example, but I simply pointed out that before his terrible crimes, he had acted successfully against unemployment and the economic crisis.":^o :^o :^o
Yep.WhiteBlue wrote:I don't think that Jean Todt is a suitable candidate if he finally puts his hat in the ring. He is knowledgable and very hard working. But he is also not a charming personality who could - in a crisis - make a difference by using many personal relationships to overcome it. He is too much a one sided partisan person to be the next FIA president. I'm a bit disappointed there.
Don't be silly.freedom_honda wrote:I really hope Jean doesn't become the next FIA president. or FIA will turn into Ferrari International Assistance again.
