Jean Todt: The Right Man to Be FIA President?

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Published: December 5, 2013

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Jean Todt gets re-elected unopposed as the FIA president on Friday, but what does that really mean for the sport?

In understanding whether or not Todt’s tenure as FIA president has been a good or bad thing so far, we must first consider a few options.

These include what state the sport was in when Todt took over for outgoing president Max Mosley, what Todt has done to liven up proceedings since and why there were no other candidates to challenge Todt for the job.

 

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It may well have been to Todt’s benefit that Max Mosley left his role of president under something of a cloud.



Mosley became embroiled in a very public court battle with the News of the World newspaper, who published video footage of him involved in a sadomasochistic orgy that the paper alleged involved Nazi role play.

Mosley won his court battle against the paper on the grounds it constituted an invasion of privacy and that the Nazi allegations were also false.

But whatever good Mosley may have done for the sport during his 16 years in charge, there remains one thing in particular that springs to the front of most people’s minds at the mention of his name.

In his column for the Daily Mail, Stephen Glover recently said that it must not be forgotten what Mosley did and that his successful attempt to erase all internet proof of what happened, as reported in The Guardian, is an attack on the freedom of individuals.

He blames everyone except himself. It seems never to occur to Max Mosley that he may have acted unwisely or wrongly. In trying to bury his unwholesome past, this peculiar man would, if he could, cheerfully dismantle all our freedoms.

Not long afterwards, Mosley announced that he would stand down as FIA president at the end of his term in October 2009. In July 2009, Todt announced his intention to run for the presi...
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