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Mosley plans to step down in 2009
Max Mosley has said he will step down from his presidency of the FIA in 2009, even if the forthcoming vote of confidence goes in his favour.
Following the recent sex scandal, which has caused disquiet among several of formula one's manufacturers, Mosley's position is to be decided by a secret ballot of the FIA general assembly in Paris on June 3. The 68-year-old has said that if he is cleared to remain in his post as the head of world motorsport, he will follow his plan to retire in 2009, after 16 years as president.
If they wish me to continue, I will continue, if they don't, I'll stop," Mosley told The Sunday Telegraph. "But I will also say to them that it was always my intention, because it is, that I was never going to go beyond 2009. The reason's very simple. If you stop in 2009, aged 69, you can maybe still do something else useful. Were I to stay on till I was 73, I'd be getting very marginal."
Mosley also claimed to have received support from several national motorsport bodies and said this had been helped strengthen his conviction that he should not resign over the affair. "The fundamental reason [I've not resigned] is that the people who elected me, the presidents of all these clubs worldwide, a number of them have written, and for every letter I've had from a club president saying 'I think you should step down' ... I've had slightly more than seven who said, 'You've absolutely got to stay, don't give an inch'. It would then be impossible to turn around to all these people, the great majority, and say, 'No, I'm going to walk away', even if I'm inclined to. But my inclination is to stay and fight."
Mosley, who admitted that his family had been embarrassed by the revelations of his sexual behaviour, also expressed interest that none of formula one's heavyweight opinion leaders have voiced opinions on the matter. Yesterday, however, Red Bull Racing driver Mark Webber said he believed many within the sport were following protocol and would wait until the outcome of the ballot before speaking out over the scandal.
I guess most will have seen that Ecclestone met with the teams over the weekend and offered to co-sign a letter calling for Mosley's resignation.
Apparently Ferrari, Toro Rosso and Williams refused to be co-signatories.
But how about this....according to Bernie, Jean Todt is the nailed down successor to Mosley!
Is the FIA having a laugh? Whatever Todt's best intentions he is never going to escape accusations of bias and if this is true they are merely substituting one fiasco with another.
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Novak stands by McLaren comments
Novak stands by McLaren comments
By Forumula1.net on Friday, May 2, 2008
Filed Under: F1 News
Radovan Novak, the head of the Czech Automobile Association who controversially suggested that Ron Dennis and McLaren helped to bring the Max Mosley sex scandal into the public eye in the belief that the matter is related to last year’s espionage saga, is standing by his comments.
Talking to Prague radio station Radio Impuls, Novak claimed that McLaren could have been involved in the setup against Mosley.
Ron Dennis has denied that he had any involvement in the matter and the McLaren team have written to Novak asking him to clarify what he said.
A statement released by Dennis read, “As I have consistently said whenever I have been asked about this, I categorically deny that I have anything to do with the News of the World investigation into Mr Mosley.
“Neither does anyone connected with the McLaren Group or the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team. And neither does any agent or any other party acting on my behalf or anyone connected with the McLaren Group or the team.”
Despite McLaren’s denial of any form of involvement at the letter asking for clarification, Novak has told the Czech Press Agency that he stands by his comments. “It is definitely one of the possibilities every intelligent person has to consider,” he explained. “But then maybe Mr Mosley already knows who was behing it.”
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'Max was set-up in retaliation to Stepneygate'
'Max was set-up in retaliation to Stepneygate'
Friday 2nd May 2008
Radovan Novak, the head of the Czech Automobile Association, stands by his belief that McLaren may be behind the current controversy Max Mosley finds himself in.
Speaking to a Prague radio station earlier this week, Novak claimed that Mosley is being set-up by McLaren in retaliation for last year's Stepneygate spy scandal, which saw McLaren excluded from the Constructors' Championship and handed a hefty fine.
"I wouldn't like to talk about what kind of set-up it was, but I believe it was a set-up, because of what happened recently," Novak told Radio Impuls.
"When the FIA, from the proposal of Mosley, fined someone significantly, then it gives you the feeling that it could be like that."
Novak's hint that he believed it was McLaren who framed Mosley resulted in Ron Dennis vehemently denying the allegations.
"I categorically deny that I have anything to do with the News of the World's investigation into Mr Mosley, neither does anyone connected with the McLaren Group or the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team," he told The Times.
The McLaren team boss also wrote a letter to the head of the Czech Automobile Association demanding an explanation for his remarks.
However, while Novak was unable to justify why he believed McLaren were behind the scandal, he says he stands by his comments.
"It's definitely one of the possibilities every intelligent person has to consider," Novak told the Czech Press Agency. "But maybe Mr. Mosley already knows who is behind it."
However, given that Mosley has hired private investigations company, Quest, to find out who is behind this "disgusting conspiracy" it can be assumed that he doesn't yet know.
He also doesn't know whether or not he'll have a job in a month as the FIA General Assembly meets on June 3rd when a vote will be taken as to whether Mosley should remain as FIA President.
Novak, though, reckons there is a chance that the 68-year-old could hold onto his job. "It's 50/50," he said.
"I'm a member of the sporting council (WMSC). There are 24 people (excluding Mosley and Bernie Ecclestone) and actually last week we had a poll about how this thing should go and what should happen there.
"In fact, there were nine people in favour of Mr. Mosley, nine people against him and six people who abstained from voting.
"If you project these numbers to all the member states, then I personally see it as 50/50.
"I personally believe that the sporting clubs will stick with Mosley and the automobile ones, or as they like to call themselves 'mobility', some will go against him."
If Max wants to spice up his sex life, who is anybody to deny him?
A very simple statement.
The Nazi attachment should see him resign. There's absolutely no way that any other well known or position holding figure would survive, so what's special about him? And why would he need to stay on anyway? Don't tell me he's "strategic" for motorsport - he's been caught doing something unsavoury to most sensible adults, so he should bugger off out of the limelight and enjoy his millions.
Max - if it's true - you are a disgrace to humanity - so just fuck off and die, preferably like Robert Maxwell. Role play is one thing - in your position you should know better for fuck's sake!!!
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Radovan Novak has now formally withdrawn his suggestion that Ron was a party to the News of the World sting.
Significantly the British press are reporting that Prince Albert of Monaco has refused to have anything to do with Mosley during the GP weekend next week and that the FIA has been forced to field a substitute to carry out the FIA official duties.
Given that Max has a home in Monte Carlo and that this is the one GP that he was going to attend I would say that this development is a serious set-back to any chance he may have of surviving the vote in early June.
He clearly cannot carry out his function. If he had any honour he should resign now.
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