Post by blacktulip on Oct 23, 2009 13:50:17 GMT
Jean Todt has become the new most powerful man in world motorsport after triumphing in Friday’s FIA presidential election.
The former Ferrari team boss resoundingly defeated rival candidate Ari Vatanen in a vote of the FIA’s worldwide membership, Todt achieving over two thirds of the vote in the secret ballot at the governing body’s Paris headquarters.
The 63-year-old Frenchman received 135 votes to Vatanen's 49 with 12 abstentions and succeeds long-time incumbent Max Mosley with immediate effect, Mosley having decided not to seek a fifth term of office and instead throw his weight behind Todt as his successor.
"Jean Todt has been elected President of the FIA for a four-year term by the FIA General Assembly at its annual meeting in Paris," an FIA statement said.
The former Ferrari team boss resoundingly defeated rival candidate Ari Vatanen in a vote of the FIA’s worldwide membership, Todt achieving over two thirds of the vote in the secret ballot at the governing body’s Paris headquarters.
The 63-year-old Frenchman received 135 votes to Vatanen's 49 with 12 abstentions and succeeds long-time incumbent Max Mosley with immediate effect, Mosley having decided not to seek a fifth term of office and instead throw his weight behind Todt as his successor.
"Jean Todt has been elected President of the FIA for a four-year term by the FIA General Assembly at its annual meeting in Paris," an FIA statement said.
Finally- a president with a "cool head" on his shoulders! 
Maxie's penalties seemed a bit draconian , at least to me. ;D