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Scandal-plagued Max “The Littlest Perv” Mosley will not stand again as FIA president and will back Frenchman Jean Todt to succeed him after 16 years in charge of world motorsport.

Former world rally champion and ex-European lawmaker Ari Vatanen on Friday said he was seeking unity as he launched his campaign to become president of the International Motorsports Federation (FIA), Formula One’s governing body.

With all the ecco-friendly talk coming from the mouths of Bernie and Mad Max Mosley the last thing we need is for either of them to hear about the latest in F3 design.

I haven’t posted on the results of the Paris FibberGate inquiry by the WMSC because frankly I became very bored of the topic. I will say I was surprised, shocked is too strong a word, they only got a suspended sentence.

It appears as if FOM Chief Bernie Ecclestone has decided to try and use the current economic meltdown to his advantage this week by offering the teams more financial freedom in return for a bigger commitment to the pinnacle of Motorsports.

The world of Formula One on Friday agreed on a series of cost-cutting measures following a meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Monaco.

As suggested by many, including Honda officials and F1 powerbrokers Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley, there is already interest in the Brackley based F1 Honda team that was put on the block Friday Japanese auto giant Honda.

Thanks Bernie, but no thanks:
Formula One supremo Bernie “The Gnome” Ecclestone is pushing for the sport to introduce a standard engine as soon as 2010.
Amid a renewed drive to drastically reduce costs, with FIA president Max Mosley warning the sport must act now if it is to survive beyond next year (NEXT YEAR?! Talk about [...]

Former Formula 1 driver and commentator Jonathan Palmer’s MotorSport Vision [MSV] company has won the tender to supply and run the FIA’s proposed new Formula 2 series.
Formula 2 was originally replaced in the mid-eighties by Formula 3000, which would later be replaced by GP2, but the category looks set for a revival (Max “The Littlest [...]

FIA president Max Mosley favours the introduction of a common engine across the board for Formula One race cars.

Those that follow Formula One with any regularity know without hesitation Bernie Ecclestone is a nitwit and isn’t afraid to parade that fact before the general public at the drop of a hat.
But even well known nitwits can outdo themselves, witness Bernie’s latest as he opines on London’s 2012 efforts to hold that years Summer [...]

Formula 1 chiefs announced on Friday that the British Grand Prix will move from Silverstone to Donington Park from 2010 onwards in a 10-year deal.
The announcement from Formula 1’s governing body, the FIA, signals the end of Silverstone’s grip on one of the most prestigious Grands Prix on the calendar.
The Silverstone circuit has hosted the [...]

Formula One, as is the case with most racing categories, is a simple business. The only corporate mission is to win championships. There are no corporate line extensions or product extensions, so everything done within a race team follows the answer to the question: “Will this make the car go faster?”
It is as simple as [...]

Max Wins confidence vote, attends Paris opening of “Sex in the City” with unknown mistresses.
That’s it, that’s all I got and remain not so much surprised at the outcome but by the wide margin of victory.
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Every family seems to have a weird uncle.
Whether he’s “weird” in the strictest sense of the word or just something out of the ordinary to a particular family the statement is true enough to use the generalization.
At this point in the Max Mosley scandal it seems pretty fair to say Mosley is to the FIA [...]

There’s an interesting story out of the U.K. that is related to Max Mosley’s attempt at gaining financial restitution from NotW for invasion of privacy when they printed the nazi spank-fest featuring Mosley and five prostitutes.
Actor Hugh Grant just won a U.K. court judgment for invasion of his, Liz Hurley and her husband Arun Nayar [...]

In less than a fortnight the F1 Circus rolls into Monaco for one of, if not the most prestigious event on the world championship calender. The events long and gloried history may never again see a day like this years addition in what may come to be known as “M Day.”
The day Max “The Littlest [...]

In what EuroSport is calling an exclusive they quote former F1 world champion Alan “Servile Flatterer” Jones as backing FIA president Max “The Littlest Perv” Mosley.
Jones, apparently speaking after an overdose of snorted Vegemite, has even jumped on the conspiracy bandwagon: “I think he was set up,” Jones claims.

Jones, speaking to Eurosport at the final [...]

The rest of us meaning F1 fans.
Jean Todt is being lined up to replace Max The Littlest Perv Mosley when the current President of the FIA either steps, or is forced, down.
Allegedly that is the overwhelming view in the Formula 1 paddock as the Perv’s self-imposed execution (hopefully!) at the “Extraordinary Meeting” in Paris is [...]

The list is getting longer for the future former head of the FIA. The Littlest Perv has lost another round in the legal system of the EU.
A judge in Paris said Tuesday it was not within his jurisdiction to ban an Internet video of The Littlest Perv with prostitutes, but he ordered the French recall [...]