FIA Elections 2009 - Jean Todt wins Presidency

Just thought I'd start this thread for posting our reactions, since we'd started posting them in the "Your ideal FIA President" thread and I hardly think he is for most of us.
Credit to Dave for posting the news originally.

So yeah, Todt has won it.

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/23/2009 03:54PM by EC83.

Just got the email from ITV.
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What fools we were to even hope for a result any different.

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congrat to Jean Todt

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FIA FAILS

Kimi, so, Massa Fernando Sebastian is faster than you. Can you confirm you understood that message?

Congratulations Jean! I'm quite pleased with this result Ofcourse its too soon to tell whether it was the right one or not, but I'm optimistic.

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FIA fails (2)


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GPGSL-3: champion in 2007/2013/2014!
GPGSL-4: testdrivers champion in Season 11!

Bring on the puppet show!

It was a landslide

What a joke. I actually the future of F1 was looking great this morning, hoping Todt wouldnt have to show his face at race weekends.

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"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL

I think through his career he has proven to everybody the success
on everything he has had his hands on, so i dont see why it
could not be any different been Fia President.

Funny thing is with Todt he wont be running it will he, Mosley will be pulling his strings in the background. Great .

Wasn't Max to leave the FIA completely? If so, he can hardly pull the strings in the background.

Unlucky Ari

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jcaranti Wrote:
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> I think through his career he has proven to
> everybody the success
> on everything he has had his hands on, so i dont
> see why it
> could not be any different been Fia President.

In theory, yes, you're right, but in practice, it could well be a different story. Moseley and Bernie made NO secret that they wanted Todt to win, Moseley even said Todt would be a "continuation" of his (Moseley's) work. So how much of Todt's ACTUAL influence and ideas as (opposed to Moseley's) makes it through is questionable.

I thought the whole issue of Mosley campaigning for Todt was illegal and that it would somehow play to Ari's advantage. How wrong was I in believing that an entity run by Max Mosley would punish its president.

nothing has happened yet and still people start complaining

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mika19b Wrote:
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> Funny thing is with Todt he wont be running it
> will he, Mosley will be pulling his strings in the
> background. Great .


And what exactly would be Max's motivation to be doing that?

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Karan Wrote:
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> mika19b Wrote:
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> > Funny thing is with Todt he wont be running it
> > will he, Mosley will be pulling his strings in
> the
> > background. Great .
>
>
> And what exactly would be Max's motivation to be
> doing that?


Um, to stay in control? That was a bit of a silly question. Max has been heavily involved in Todts campaign, and of course as we know, his threatening letters to organisations which supported Ari were made public. To suggest Max will not have any say in Todts reign as FIA President given how the build up went is simply naive.

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