MadMax Mosley is planning a coup!

[Myrvold]

Will it be goodbye Todt, and welcome again Mosley? If so, I can imagine loads of protests...
The Source

[ADx_Wales]

Italian Scaremongering?

[CarlosFerreira]

We finally got a proper, calm, seemingly impartial President of the FIA. What's there not to like? If this happens, I'll just stick to MotoGP and Superbikes, it's much better.

[LukeB]

Sure it's not a Putsch?
(OK maybe that's a little mean.... )

[Phoenix]

GO HOME, MAX MOSLEY


Seriously, this guy doesn't even know how to properly execute a coup d'état.

[coops]

Im available at weekends!

Oh. Thats says....nevermind.

[eagleash]

Italian Scaremongering?

It was dismissed as such a day or two ago by the usual bloggers. Don't think there's much to it, but if he's got Bernie's support, there could be more. What Bernie wants, tends to come about.

[f1-gast]

Why everyone hates Mosley ?
He was jsut one of the people that was actually real.

[Klon]

We simply should have an anonymous FIA president who acts via a computer... it's not like it would make anything more ridiculous than it is currently.

[LukeB]

We simply should have an anonymous FIA president who acts via a computer... it's not like it would make anything more ridiculous than it is currently.

[Salamander]

We simply should have an anonymous FIA president who acts via a computer... it's not like it would make anything more ridiculous than it is currently.

Alternatively...

[Tealy]

Alternatively...

We may be forced into changing the music for the Podium ceremony however. Also don't be surprised if the winner of the WDC is promised some cake.

I can't say I believe this report at the moment, it really needs more credibility for me to believe that Mosely would want to do this when he seemingly chose Jean Todt in the first place. Besides what has Todt done that would have annoyed him so far?

[Popi_Larrauri]

Alternatively...

We may be forced into changing the music for the Podium ceremony however.

Kraftwerk?

[dr-baker]

We simply should have an anonymous FIA president who acts via a computer... it's not like it would make anything more ridiculous than it is currently.

Alternatively...

Memories of the Capricorn 1 thread...

[ADx_Wales]

The Champagne is a lie.

[Frentzen127]

We will put aside our differences.
For more Ferrari championships.
You monster.

I approve of this motion.

[Cynon]

Ferrari isn't winning anymore, and the Ferrari man as President was supposed to make Ferrari win more.

...

BURN THE WITCH!!!!

[coops]

We simply should have an anonymous FIA president who acts via a computer

Have the Teminator movies taught us nothing?

[mario]

Why everyone hates Mosley ?
He was jsut one of the people that was actually real.

Whilst in some ways, Mosely was a big improvement on Balestre (Max might have liked to dress in German military uniforms for his leisure activities, but Balestre actually served the German military during WW2), on others he was no different. There have been many questions raised about decisions made during his tenure - for example, the repeated questions about the legality of the Benetton B194, concerning hidden software which possibly could have enabled the car to have traction control (the case could have been dealt with much more transparently) and the removal of filters in the fuel rigs.
Of course, there are have been times when people have wondered if some punishments handed out by the FIA were motivated by feelings of revenge, especially when dealing with Ron Dennis, whom he was known to dislike, and made no effort to disguise his feelings. Others question why, at times, Ferrari appeared to be treated relatively leniently during his tenure (especially during the Schumacher domination years).

And the final big question was the nature of the commercial agreements between the FIA, and FOM, considering that Bernie and Mosely were best friends. Many have questioned why the FIA sold the television rights to FOM at a peculiarly low price, and whether some decisions in the World Motorsport Council were unduly influenced by Mosely acting in concert with Bernie. We have seen how, for example, Bernie has lobbied in the press for certain teams with a high profile (and, of course, high brand value) to be treated leniently, and was, no doubt, just as active behind closed doors in the WMSC. Having a second, major, figure in the form of Mosely would have helped Bernie get what he wanted, even if it was in many ways detrimental to the sport in the long run.

[RAK]

We simply should have an anonymous FIA president who acts via a computer... it's not like it would make anything more ridiculous than it is currently.

"L-l-look at you, driver, panting and sweating as you drive around my racetracks. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?"

[Whis]

We simply should have an anonymous FIA president who acts via a computer... it's not like it would make anything more ridiculous than it is currently.

oh dear, oh dear. you reminded me of wwe.

[LukeB]

We simply should have an anonymous FIA president who acts via a computer... it's not like it would make anything more ridiculous than it is currently.

"L-l-look at you, driver, panting and sweating as you drive around my racetracks. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?"

"...and in other news, complaints about and to the FIA have dropped to an all time low. Reports indicate this is due to a sudden increase in what is being reffered to as "pants-shitting terror". A quote from an insider said "oh god please no more of those spiders I can hear them coming make it stop make it stop makeitstop" followed by muffled sobbing...

[dr-baker]

"...and in other news, complaints about and to the FIA have dropped to an all time low. Reports indicate this is due to a sudden increase in what is being reffered to as "pants-shitting terror". A quote from an insider said "oh god please no more of those spiders I can hear them coming make it stop make it stop makeitstop" followed by muffled sobbing...

Sounds like it ought to be a "1984" reference, but of course that was rats in room 101.