Mosley won't stand for another term

[ioan]

Good new for the NOTW fans!

"There are a large number of people in the FIA who are saying that I must run again in 2009," said Mosley this week as part of an interview with this week's Autosport.

"I don't want to, because to be very, very honest, I want to stop going to work every day. It is that thing that every morning you cannot believe how much work there is to do.

"A lot of people with ambitions think all you do is put on a blazer and an armband and you are president of the FIA. You can do it like that, but then you are not the person in control - it is the secretary general. So if you want to have any influence, you have to do an awful lot of work."

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/69515

He also decided to concentrate for the rest of his term on making F1 greener and cheaper!

He also said that he hopes F1 can move towards a raft of cost cuts over the next few years, which will also help improve the environmental credentials of the sport.

He wants to free up drive train development - in exchange for manufacturers supplying independent teams free of charge.

"It does need a real reduction in cost," he said. "It needs the independent teams to be able to operate profitably and if they can't operate profitably they won't operate at all eventually because they have to run at a profit.

"At the moment, if you're an independent team like Toro Rosso or Force India, you can't run at a profit – you depend on a billionaire to subsidise you. And there just aren't enough billionaires around to subsidise. So that problem has got to be solved.

"One of the suggestions being made is the first thing you do is move the development area essentially into the drivetrain so that you're looking at the new technologies in the drivetrain, things like KERS, things like turbo generators, heat recovery, all those sort of things which are relevant to the road."

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/69514

Cheers to that!

[Knock-on]

Well, he's hardly going to be out there handleing diplomatic duties and meeting heads of Government etc.

The only thing he can do is within the FIA where his cronies support his will. Everyone else thinks he's a bit of a laughing stock.

[gloomyDAY]

Sorry, but I'm not a fan of NOTW and still wanted Max to be abdicated from his throne prior to all of this stupidity. Now if I say something against Mosley, which is often, I'm accused of being in cahoots with some obnoxious tabloid. Frankly, Max can nail all the prostitutes in the world and it won't change a thing as to my feelings about this old goat.

A lot of you seem to forget that the FIA does not only oversee F1. The WRC has been suffering for years under Max's control. Granted this also has a lot to do with the rights holder David Richards. Both of these chaps share equal responsibilty for the utter shambles of the WRC. You think it's hard to make a profit in F1 Max? Try the WRC...

[Knock-on]

Sorry, but I'm not a fan of NOTW and still wanted Max to be abdicated from his throne prior to all of this stupidity. Now if I say something against Mosley, which is often, I'm accused of being in cahoots with some obnoxious tabloid. Frankly, Max can nail all the prostitutes in the world and it won't change a thing as to my feelings about this old goat.

A lot of you seem to forget that the FIA does not only oversee F1. The WRC has been suffering for years under Max's control. Granted this also has a lot to do with the rights holder David Richards. Both of these chaps share equal responsibilty for the utter shambles of the WRC. You think it's hard to make a profit in F1 Max? Try the WRC...

Like you, I can't stand the NotW and think Max is damaging for Motorsport based on what he has done to F1. Things like the 300million bribe for gifting the rights to bernie and fixing the championship to gift Benetton and Schumacher the title amongst others.

I also agreed that this was an invasion of his privacy and he has the right to cheat on his wife, lie to his family and hire prostitutes to act out a S&M German Prison fantasy. Not my cuppa tea but as long as it's behind closed doors, it's his conscience.

Where he dips his wick is none of my concern.

[Mark]

Max said that he wouldn't stand for a third term months ago. That I think is the only reason he didn't get pushed out now.

[ioan]

... fixing the championship to gift Benetton and Schumacher the title amongst others.

Proof needed! Just because you or someone on the forum thinks this is the case, it doesn't mean it's true.

[I am evil Homer]

Proof needed! Just because you or someone on the forum thinks this is the case, it doesn't mean it's true.

You might want to bear that in mind the next time you talk about McLaren then.

[Mark]

How did they do that then? If anything in 94 they tried to fix it in favour of Williams

[ioan]

You might want to bear that in mind the next time you talk about McLaren then.

I always do, plus the McCheats always give enough proof of their wrongdoings!

[ioan]

How did they do that then? If anything in 94 they tried to fix it in favour of Williams

That's exactly what I was thinking, given that MS was banned for 4 races in order to make it a close battle.