Mosley: ‘pressure’ to stand for re-election
June 28, 2009 by Negative Camber
Filed under Top Story
As was the case last year with the infamous sex scandal, according to the Daily Mail- Sunday, Max Mosley says he is yet again being pressured to stand for re-election for the position of FIA President when his term ends in October this year. The FIA/FOTA deal was that Max would not stand for re-election but he feels that FOTA were too quick to dance upon his grave and that there were misleading comments made about his stepping down with immediate effect. Thus, Mr. Mosley is being “pressured” to run for office again as the FIA members feel they are under attack by the evil car manufacturers.
Max also took the opportunity to insult Luca di Montezedmolo saying:
‘I don’t really expect Luca will apologise or withdraw in the way that he should,’ said Mosley. ‘Yet, on the other hand, within the motor sport world nobody takes him seriously. He’s seen as what the Italians call a “bella figura”. He’s chairman of Fiat but the serious individual who runs it is Sergio Marchionne, and I don’t suppose he takes much notice of Luca.’
Very mature Max.
He also made a few comments about his friend and F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone that were suspect:
‘It must be maddening for Bernie,’ said Mosley. ‘He’s a serious businessman with a serious business to run. Obviously, from his point of view, if he was given a choice between his business and an old friend, he’d choose his business.
‘But he knew it was my intention to stop in October, so even if they all objected to me he really didn’t have a problem on Wednesday.
‘Nobody was more upset than Bernie when Luca came out with his stupid comments and someone to do with FOTA put out that very dishonest briefing. All it did was cause trouble and Bernie hates having trouble which doesn’t result in a profit.
‘He started life selling cars and one of his sayings is, “Once you’ve sold the car, stop talking”. What Luca did was worse; not only did he not stop talking, but he talked stupidly.’
That seems to me to be a slight bit off from the normal tack used by Max regarding Bernie. He seems to be slapping Bernie as a cold, ruthless business man and yet is also sucking up about poor Bernie’s thoughts on how silly this whole affair is. He seems to be using Bernie as a supporting counterpoint to the political row with FOTA and yet slapping him in the face at the same time.
So in the end, what exactly does 122 FIA member clubs have to do with F1? Sure, a few of the members may be on the WMSC that Max set up but ultimately what does a club vice president from Ethiopia have to do with F1? This is little to do with FOTA being some imminent danger to the FIA as Bernie is still involved and seated on the council. No, it is about ego. The same prime mover that saw him lash out and lose his marbles last year after being caught in kinky sex games. It is impossible for his ego to manage the thought of looking silly, beat or played for a fool in the media. I have one piece of advice; leave. Take Bernie’s advice and shut up. You sold the car (FIA/FOTA deal) and now you need to shut up. Luca may not be a man of distinction in your eyes but he is man enough to slam your bum to the curb and bring your empire down during a time when you and Bernie thought you could cram down on the car companies and radically change F1 for your golden years parachute.
And while we’re at it Max…could you share a little with about Manor F1? We understand that maybe you and Nick Wirth are still attached and that your right-hand man Alan Donnely’s wife is doing their PR for free. IS this the type of crack decision making that you are refering to that the 122 stooge autoclubs of the FIA is endorsing and feel is far from dictatorial? You can all sit and spin if this is the junior league decision making that would see real teams like Lola or Prodrive passed over for backroom deals to trump your personal position. You suck…and so does your organization. Bring on the breakaway series!
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Ok, here’s what i think:
It’s Max’s wife, that is pressuring him!!
She doesn’t want him around and wants him to get out and get a job.
On a more serious note, i think that Max knows that the moment he steps down, the world will come down on him. All those favours and attacks will be payed and people will not spare him. Right now he’s in a safe place. As FIA president he is untouchable. As a Former FIA President, he will be cannon fodder.
Is this Guy related to Hugo Chavez? Seriously I don’t know who has the bigger head.
“Yet, on the other hand, within the motor sport world nobody takes him seriously”
thats why 7 other teams, sponsors and MONACO were ready to follow him out of F1.
“He’s chairman of Fiat but the serious individual who runs it is Sergio Marchionne, and I don’t suppose he takes much notice of Luca.”
Your right Max i’m sure that Sergio pays no attention nor values the opinion of the chairman of one thee worlds premier manufacturers and brand names, or you could just be a clown
“Nobody was more upset than Bernie when Luca came out with his stupid comments and someone to do with FOTA put out that very dishonest briefing.”
And that’s why he came running to your defense. Oh wait he didn’t did he as amatter of fact he has been rather quiet. Maybe because he realizes YOUR DESTROYING F1 IN ORDER TO SETTLE PERSONAL GRIEVANCES YOU ARTARD!!!!!
What did they really say that was hurtful to old Maxie? That they wanted a new FIA President who was Unbiased and Without Prejudice is basically what they said. So to him that is insulting yet isn’t he insulting the Chairmain, the boss of bosses of Fiat the parent company of Ferrari and now a good chunk of Chrysler. What kind of responsibilities does Max really have versus the responsibilities of the Fiat Chairman?
Max is pissed cause he lost and they won. He is clearly trying to sabotage F1 now, even if they (and they wont) came out and appologized he would start going off on some other rant about them. I really think he wanted them to leave so he did not have to deal with them anymore and he would be the big fish in the pond.
I think this deal went down with Bernie and Luca and Max sat at the table but did not get much say.
Where is Bernie through all this?
I really do wish Bernie would just tell him to ‘SHUT THE #@$% UP!!!’
At some point you would think Bernie, per Max’s assertion, would choose his business over his old buddy and throw him to the curb.
I agree Neg, in essence Max is badmouthing Bernies Customers and Partners who pay for teams, commercial time and signage at tracks and basically saying they are nothing but manufacturers. Just lowly car manufacturers.
More playground chit-chat.
ManorF1 is a transparent, embarrassing joke already.
They should just change their name to FIAF1 and be honest about it.
Agreed. I think the yarn is starting to unravel on this team and now Booth is hinting that they may not enter without a budget cap. Can anyone say Shill for the FIA?
I think they may be more upset by FOTA not signing on to Max’s idea that he, or the FIA, should be able to arbitrarily change the rules during the season in order for his friends, er um I mean noncompetitive teams to become more competitive.
What a mess that would have been.
I suppose no deal involving Max is ever solid, as he seems to think that deals only bind other others, not himself. This is just another very public example of why he needs to go.
Nobody quite riles up F1B like Max. He’s like Ron Dennis, Flavio and Ralf Schumacher all rolled into one and then wrapped in Norbert’s silver puffy vest.
It is amazing that despite all the polls, all the opinion of the fans, and the support that they have that FOTA didn’t have the courage to go it alone. They chose to lie back down with the same mangy old dogs, so now they’ve got the same fleas.
The lack of real change, and the vileness of Max & Bernie is going to drive me from F1.
MotoGP has better racing, and ALMS is really a great series, they both look after us, the fans, and race machines we can relate to, and best of all, they race in America.
It truly is a shame ALMS has such a low car count this year and TV coverage to match. And you figure with former champion Nicky Hayden in MotoGP we might get to watch the races here in Kentucky but the only person i ever here anything from is Dave Despain.
At least Indy car has good coverage on that channel nobody gets.
ALMS has adequate coverage but could be better. The lack of Audi and the Pugs this year has been tough for the series.
As for Indycar; I am sorry folks but it is not a healthy replacement for F1. I have tried very hard to like the series but it just can’t get out of its own way. The lack of actual racing is astounding in an oval series. Even Dario was embarrassed about the show this weekend.
You had me at ALMS. :)