"The FIA president said that he is receiving messages of support from association members who want him to stand for another four-year term when his mandate ends in October next year. “This sounds boastful - I'm receiving requests to stay on after 2009,” Mosley said. “They are coming from all over the world, genuinely. That means there is a perception I might [stay on]. At present it's my firm intention to stand down, but you have to take account of what people say.”

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Starting his campaign now. How did we guess

Let's vote anyway...

please go

Private sexual life aside I don't see no reason why he should leave. I think he's trying to do his best and looking for solutions for a lower-cost real F1 show. They are changing the rules looking for more interesting races, no one has a magic wand to see how to do it, but they are trying hard.

You couldnt make this stuff up!!!

It'll be interesting to see what Kar will say, if I remember correctly, he supported his dodgy doings but was adamant he would go when his term was up

Has he really got a nerve to carry on, and is it even more amazing were going to have people even supporting the decision on here.

I don't really see Max carry on after this term, but let's see who presents him- or herself as _the alternative_ next year.
If that is a clear improvement great, if not let's keep Max.

where's the 'please leave in december 2005' option?

he's a joke

He should go. In fact he has said he will go. However, he will stay on.

Actually that's a good point. His successor will have to get through the FIA voting structure, by promising favours to corrupt local fixers in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South America.

Ballestre -> Mosley ->

It might be impossible for an honest person to win.

Should have gone long ago. October 2009 is way too late.

Size of his ego is overhelming...

Well if you look realistically at it than yes a potential successor will need to secure many of the votes that are in Max' favour today.
So either it will be a new fresh candidate that suddenly pulls many votes (the Obama candidate) or it will be a candidate that is endorsed by the group that now supports Max.

If no such candidate surfaces then Max will run again.

The World Is Not Enough!

He should step aside 12 months from now. Why? Because he came up with the future rules of the FiA president. He should stand behind them.

He should have left a long time ago.

Time for the FIA to show some transparency and tell the world who wants Spanky to stay?

WTF does that mean....?
Soooo by your jacked up reasoning the leaders of countries should never leave office because of the policies they put in place? Dude stop talking.

My understanding was that he was referring to Max's 2 term limit, and that Max should respect his own rules.

Exactly. Two terms. No more, no less. Max's own words.

Should have been gone long ago. He's a devastation to F1. And world motor sport.

agreed.

He needs to go RIGHT NOW - I think he's "dangerous"...

MAX SHOULD GO!

you are aware then that he is currently serving his third and that the two term rule came into effect the day he started it, meaning that running for a fourth remains inside those rules? thought not.

but he should have stepped down already, been fired, and be ready to walk come october next year. he hasn't and won't do any of these things, because for one, he has discovered he doesn't need to do anything to be fia president, so why would he?

plus he'd lose the jet to get in the hookers to monaco.

interesting he notes that his press release in response to bmw et al was ill-considered but has yet to make the same judgement about a man in his position sleeping with 5 hookers.

Notwithstanding his personal experiences, it's time for Max to go.

I'd like to see someone with fresh ideas and a more sensible agenda take over his position.

Time for some fresh bloods in the FIA. Obama where are you?

He is obsessed with power so he wont go until he dies imo. He just cant, his life would be empty without being in such a position of power. No number of hookers and spankings could replace that.

sadly true.

would be major step forward for f1 for max to give it up.

Not only he is a adulterer his also a liar Keep your promise and go f--- yourself you nazi prick

Actually, you might find that the person who is "a devastation to F1. And world motor sport" could just be the "beloved" Bernie... As things stand I see no reason for Mosley not to be involved in the future...

For all the outrage from all the sanctimonious nay sayers... how many of them can say they never, ever cheated on a wife or partner. Moseley`s problem is that he got caught in a very public fashion.
How many posters on this board can say hand on heart that they have never done wrong in the past? How many can say they never cheated on a girlfriend, partner or wife?

And who is to replace him?

What a clown. For a couple of years now, starting from infamous 'attempt' to resign in 2004, his actions and words state lack of motivation to continue with responsibilities of the FIA president. The FIA under him continuously fail to create and follow a clearer and thought through rules - not in high-tec areas which is understandable, but in a very simple cases like cutting the chicane. His incompetent cronies from the third world are praying him to continue because without him they would be soon thrown away for overwhelming lack of professionalism.

This lame individual wants to enjoy the full power but at the same time doesn't want to take any responsibility of the job. What's the reason to keep him even for the next week?

I can't vote in this poll as there is no option "He should kill himself right now".

Surprise, surprise ...

Lack of personal integrity (he made a written commitment to stand down in October 2009, if he wins the vote of confidence in a letter to heads of FIA clubs in May 2008 - http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/67479 ) and putting his own interest above the need of the institution he represents to find a successor in an orderly manner (which incidentally does not involve a crony traveling around with a sack full of promises).

Why would anybody believe anything this man is saying considering he breaks his word in such a blatant way?

Why was a rule introduced that FIA presidents should not stand for more than two turns of office? I understand why it is formally not binding for Mr Mosley, but presumably there is some substantive reason for it, otherwise surely it would not have been formulated? Why would that reason apply to everybody except Mr Mosley? Is it for the same reason that nobody else could save FIA this year? 'Only me, now and forever ...' What an attitude.

It is "stupidity" of people to believe in a FIA bias? I think it is a bit rich not to understand that one cannot publicly destroy trust in an institution and then turn around and blame others for not trusting FIA ... And once again that tone of acerbic lack of even most basic politeness to those who disagree - about time to learn that an insult is not an argument. And the president of FIA does his office no service if he talks like a BBmember heading for his nth banning for failing to grasp some fundamental rules of discourse.

If he does a good job, which he does, and if the people around him want him to stay and continue to do that job, which they do, then he should stay.

The truth is, he is inclined to carry on next year despite pressure to step down.

From 2006:

"Mosley has still expressed some irritation at the scenario that emerged after the Italian Grand Prix when the GPDA issued a statement criticising track safety, and the FIA responded by claiming that drivers should not be involved in regulatory matters.

"Feathers were ruffled," said Mosley. "One driver said they wouldn't be intimidated, another started talking about boycotting races. Not the most intelligent of responses, you may think, to a gentle warning.

"We obviously cannot have two bodies telling circuits what is required. That would result in total confusion. The fact that the GPDA release muddled calculated impact speed with maximum permissible impact speed reinforces this.

"We will always listen to drivers, but the decisions must be ours. And if we have to lose a race or two or a few licences to make a point, we will. "

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/56071

Max rules by fear, as Bernie has said. He's an autocrat, vindictive and vengeful, with a long series of poor decisions imposed on the sport. Whose rules have made overtaking impossible for a decade?

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!

Highly debatable. How many rule and regulation changes and flip flops have we had under his rule? Lack of regulatory stability is a failing of leadership and his fault. Not to mention the controversies that F1 has been suffocated with, under his rule and many stemming directly from himself. By most measures hes been a failure.

bingo

Anyone who thought he was ACTUALLY going to go next year was, quite frankly, living in cloud cukoo land.

The only way he's going is if Ron shells out for a hitman.

Still hope he'll find himself a job in San Fernando Valley.

Max should leave. Not, or not only, for his private perversions. That is the least, and it can cost him only some contempt and jokes. Disgusting and ridicule as it is, unfortunately this is not sufficient to launch him in the trash like he'd deserve, as long as he knows how to buy votes of exotic countries. What I see more troublesome is his perverted idea of what Formula 1 should be. Things like the Kers...or the entire eco hype... in the past the grooved tyres...the refuelling...dumb new tracks.. and politically the enourmous power he let Bernie get his hands on. To not mention the dictatorial and biased direction leading to things like Spa '08...

David Coulthard. Serious.

Well to be honest he can think what he wants... at the end of the day he has to be alive in order to carry on and as things stand I would say the odds are against him.

Ahh, david couldhardt. A man with an academic degree in management and thourough knowledge of law making. Also a very decent bloke who never had sex before marriage.

Give me a break.

Without max, most of F1 would still be toddlers juggling a few hundred bob. He oversaw all the commercial deals ecclestone made, he implemented many good measures in F1. He did everything he ncould to keep small teams in F1. Because of him there hasnt been a fatal accident in F1 for over 14 years.

Its a good thing public opinion doesnt rule the world, their country or the FIA. There would be no stability and rules would be changed just about every day. The holier than thou attitude is also something that baffles me.

I dont like some of the things max has done, like banning of V12s, engine freeze, narrow track cars, grooved tyres but i can see the necessity. I have a lot of respect for mosley.

Any random retarded gutter tramp would do to keep up the current ruling standards.


But more serious: I think Ari Vatanen would make a great Fia president. If he refuses: Jody Scheckter.

How come that doesn't surprise me

I think anyone would be better, as really I'm not sure the president should even have any real power.

I cannot see this necessity. Never saw any compelling and convincing reasons for e.g. banning slicks; same for their re-launch next year.

And what's the point of having a powerless president? A painting would be just as useful.