Max won't support Vatanen's bid to be FIA Pres

[Scott]

I guess this isn't news really, but Max's response is so childish and condescending.  I guess Max thinks he is a model President.  He's run things so well at the FIA.   

From F1 Live:

In a recent lunch meeting, Max Mosley told Ari Vatanen to his face that he would not support the Finn's candidacy to succeed him as FIA president at the forthcoming election.

After 16 years as head of motor sport's Paris-based governing body, 69-year-old Mosley is stepping down and has named the former Ferrari chief Jean Todt as his preferred replacement.

The Briton said Vatanen, a former European parliamentarian and world rally champion, asked him during a lunch meeting if Mosley will publicly support his desire to be FIA president.

According to Autocar, Mosley revealed: "I said 'You have no experience, you have never run anything, you've not been in charge of even the smallest organisation, you have no concept of what it is like. You didn't even run your own rally car, you had a co-driver to do that.'"

[John S]

I think the out going President of any body that is apolitical, in the general sense, and is holding an election of members must be prevented from giving an endorsement, or withholding an endorsement, for any single candidate who meets the application criteria.

This is first of all good manners but more importantly it ensures a fair election process. Any organisation that fails to consider new ways of working or equal opportunity is storing up trouble for the future.

After all Max, it is a President everyone is seeking to replace not a Craven image of a God.