Man most likely to replace Mosley revealed.

[TheStig]

Jean Todt is being lined up to replace Max Mosley when the current President of the FIA either steps, or is forced, down – that is the overwhelming view in the Formula 1 paddock as the latter's D-Day is now less than five weeks away.

A vote of confidence in the FIA Senate in Paris on 3 June will determine whether Mosley must resign over the recent sex scandal, or else be allowed to remain in his role until the expiry of his fourth term in October, 2009 – something he has repeatedly insisted he firmly intends to do.

When he does relinquish his grip on the most powerful position within the sport, former Ferrari team chief Todt – one of the few high-profile figures within F1 to publicly back Mosley – is widely believed to be the man being groomed to take over. Both the BBC and The Times have reported that the Frenchman is ‘a lock' to assume the role.

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That would also explain Williams' unwillingness to sign a statement calling for Mosley's resignation in Barcelona last weekend. All of the eleven teams in the top flight met in the Toyota motorhome in the Circuit de Catalunya's paddock – at the behest of F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, it is believed – in an effort to compose a joint statement demanding the embattled 68-year-old step down.

Whilst Red Bull's refusal to put its name to the agreement was perhaps no great surprise – with owner Dietrich Mateschitz being a close friend of Mosley's – the similar resistance of Williams, said to have infuriated Ecclestone, is a little harder to fathom. It has been suggested, however, that neither Sir Frank Williams nor Patrick Head would sign the statement as both are sternly opposed to Todt becoming the Englishman's successor.

http://www.crash.net/motorsport/f1/news/162722-0/man_most_likely_to_replace_mosley_revealed.html

TheStig
He has got my vote..He loves the sport!

[John S]

I still think they should look outside F1 for the job, after all it's Head of Motorsport worldwide. By getting someone from outside F1 means their impartiallity will be credible and you never know their ideas may even be inclusive instead of divisive.

[Scott]

No vote from me.  He doesn't 'play' fair'.  No lectures on what his job was please, he had the influence at Ferrari to make different decisions.  His weren't based on fairness, from his team orders down to his using the FIA's bias to his own advantage at the disadvantage of almost everyone else.  I think he will be anything but objective as FIA Pres - I hope he doesn't, or that I'm wrong. 

[Dare]

I'm with you on that Scotty,I can't see Jean
being partial in any decisions involving issues if
Ferrari is involved