So this means that we did not get rid of Palpatine. Viceroy Gunray will be a loyal puppet.

I just hope that Todt will be able to prove all naysayers wrong. I won´t hold my breath though

Agreed.

Ah well, for a brief moment the FIA lifted itself out of the gutter, wiped the rancid sewage from it's shit encrusted eyes, gazed at the stars and dreamed of a better life.



Dreams over though, time to crawl back into the sewers, better get comfortable, it's going to be a long stay.

Amen to that, it's one thing to get elected now he has to deliver

Meh. No surprise. The real competition is whether this or the Iranian election will win the "Most Obviously Fraudulent Election Result" award for 2009.

Guys, the Concorde agreement only extends to 2012

Only 49 votes against Todt/Mosley

Ok FOTA, let's get the ball rolling again eh?

Ari said he had 98 votes. It's suddenly become 49.

Autosport still in the dark: NobleF1 Nothing official yet, but reports suggest Todt has won the FIA election. Now waiting for confirmation

Todt = Jean-Marie Balestre Mk3

"I'd like to be the first to welcome our new vote-rigging corrupt overlord"
/Kent Brockman

He shouldn't have started those charges towards the FiA. Think that killed him.

Ari supporters were apparently "halfwits" so only got half a vote

I couldn't be less surprised, really.

Poor Ari, on top of everything else that probably means he was forced to give all his votes to Todt.

Maybe 1 Ari vote is counted as 0,5?

A massacre, the rght man won

Todt wins? Hooray... He may bring some change, but all in all it will be business as usual, and that's probably what most of them wanted anyway. That way you can spread the dough much more conveniently, play your little king of the hill games, and all that. For the life of me I don't understand why anyone like Todt should have even been allowed to run, considering his obvious Ferrari ties and thus bias.

What we have in prospect is continuation. Continuation of the current regime. The reality is that nothing will change now to any dramatic effect. It's as you were FiA, nothing wrong with us.

From what I understand he used the same tactic on others as against Brundle - making their life so stressful that many decided to self-censor. A favoured tactic was to revoke press passes at the circuit, but the time everything was cleared up the journalist had wasted stressful hours - maybe a whole day - getting things sorted, when he should have been in the paddock catching up on rumours and preparing his report. I believe Richard Williams has talked about the situation too - as has Jody Scheckter.

Vatanen thought he had over 100 votes, his vote count is strangely low. But even if it was fixed, I don't expect it to be overturn. Therefore I really hope Todt just played an election game when he praised everything Mosley has done. One has to be a moron to support Mosley and Todt hasn't shown signs of that before he started his campaign.

Autosport headlines:

11.01 Baguette ahead in first practice
11.37 Todt elected new president of the FIA

Baguette indeed...

Geez it wasn't even close. Vatanen reckoned he had more votes, barring those of 20 undetermined countries.

Seems like, as he conducted most of his campaign, was talking absolute BS.

not a scoop, bugger!

Pretty surprising numbers to say the least. Let's see what Todt's "change" will be.

None, status quo, same shit different day, the establishment would not have backed him to the hilt if they felt their position in jeopardy.

Maybe not for motorsport; just grim day for Vatanen's zealots.

yeah screw those 'zealots' and their desire for a clean, professionally run sport, free from scandal and corruption.


screw them to hell!

Respect man, you were first to call it.

Now tell us, inside knowledge, or just blind luck...?

Todt IS now the President of the FIA.

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For 2009 - I think it's probably the Afghan election.

Of recent years, the prize most go to the 2001 US election.

Maybe one more post because it was a poll.

Autosport BB
Vatanen 742 votes
Todt 163 votes

FIA delegates
Vatanen 49 votes
Todt 135 votes

thanks for the discussion all, it was a fun thread

Heh, the Mosley EGA difference is better still.

Personally, I think they should just ask me, since I've got pretty much every call right in the past 3 years on matters FIA :-)

(Yes that's terribly conceited).