David Richards or Australian Alan Gow (has done a great job with the British Touring Car Championship) Maybe Mikka Hakkinen needs a new job and a regular income?
May I place it on record that this man is a loser (Minardi, US open wheel) and also not intellectually capable of the task at hand.
Bill France or some one at the NASCAR foundation. Yeah. only left turns. J/k. should be inresting to see what will happen and who will be the next replacement.
How about former Bugatti CEO, Thomas Bscher? He's well connected in the motoring world. He has a decent resume as a former banker and his hobbies at the time included racing in the FIA GT series and at LeMans among other things. He should be up to the task. >8^) ER
Including driving a McLaren road car on the way to work at speeds above 200 MPH on the German Autobahns.
TONY GEORGE? He can barely run his own speedway let alone F1. Roger Penske OTOH seems like a good candidate.
You're being sarcastic? This is the perfect public application for the job. Glad to see that he is going for it. He'll make a wonderful president. BTW: I'm also glad he brought up the argument I made earlier: Max has violated the "don't bring the sport into disrepute" clause. Not worse than Mad Max who consistently made the wrong decisions in the past 10 years and made no decisions where they were needed. F1 left alone with no president would today be in better shape than it is now. Are you aware of the fact, that Stoddart represented all the F1 teams over several years towards the FIA? The team managers apparently gave him and his intellectual capacity some trust. Besides: He is successfully running multi million dollar businesses and has the F1 experience. Minardi was no success story (unless you count the fact that he brought Alonso into the grid), but also no disaster. They survived many years under his guidance during turbulent times, longer than their successor Toro Rosso have or will. And he left the house in order, unlike Prost or Jordan. But most importantly the man knows the rules inside out, has the heart in the right spot and some common sense. And sure as hell won't get caught with his pants down. Literally. Prost would be good, but I doubt he has any interest. His F1 team endeavor left him burnt out.
As stated below: He did a miserable job running the BRDC. While everybody realized that Silverstone needs a serious make over, he refused to do anything and eventually built the club members a nice new club house. Completely ignoring the fans and the public. He almost got the British GP taken off the F1 calendar with his stubborn behavior. Bernie was playing hard ball and for a reason.
I think most of your suggestions are F1-centric. FIA is more than F1. My guess is that it would be the president of the FIA Senate. Whoever that is.
Granted I don't care about anything else outside of F1, but there is a good reason to have somebody from F1 at the top: The rules and regulations have to slow down the cars enough to keep the sport relatively safe. Since F1 is king, the rules first have to be applied to F1 and then trickle down with the goal that no other racing series can ever be faster than F1.
Marco Piccini... he seems the logical choice to me. Been in with Ferrari, but knows the law, and politics etc... I think he would not be a big show like Mosley... and I think the brits have already had too much influence already. Its time the Italians have their shot.
It seems that if Max doesn't get his "vote of confidence" on 3 June, he's raised the specter of CVC putting their own candidate into the FIA presidency to achieve it's objectives. (CVC Capital - private equity firm owning a majority stake in the Formula One group of companies, wants to take total control of Grand Prix racing.) CVC wants to negotiate the 100 year F1 commercial rights deal and wants to take over technical and sporting regulations and addiditonally be free to sell the entire business in the future to the highest bidder. Who should or will replace Max?? who knows! Carol
