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Thought it might be interesting to hold a poll and discuss who is your favorite, and why.

New developments:

lol I´m the only one who voted Todt so far.

Todt has experience about leading big organisations and handling tight situations. His only disadvantage is that he´s linked with Ferrari.

If the whole point of Mosley stepping down was to elect a new President who would offer a change in direction from Mosley, then the election of Todt would be rather a waste of time, effort and money.

Todt as a candidate has very strong credentials, but the ticket he is running on is a rather obsolete one.

Still, if he were to be elected, Ferrari would be in trouble. I doubt Todt has forgotten how he was forced out of that particular team.

Ari Vatanen, because I dont like Todt; he's always miserable and he'll just be a new Max Mosely... except with less bondage

Autosport poll:

83% Vatanen
17% Todt

Vatanen, not because i dont like Todt, but because Vatanen will be a better president, thanks to his racing background and imparciality.

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Todt is a whiny little bitch, and would continue the cycle of egotistical FIA Presidents who care more about themselves than the job they are supposed to be doing. Vatanen in his interview on BBC sounded like a sensible bloke, and what is needed is common sense which I reckon he has.

Ari Vatanen has his opinion about climate change:

Some jewels in finnish and english (translations from f1fanatic.co.uk)



http://www.hs.fi/urheilu/artikkeli/Europarlamentaarikko+Ari+Vatanen+Iso+hiilijalanj%C3%A4lki+on+merkki+menestyksest%C3%A4/1135246183829
http://www.iltalehti.fi/vaalit/200905259640938_vl.shtml

Maybe Ari is right, who knows. But green movement ain´t happy of his views.

And maybe Ari will bring back V10 and V12 engines in F1 instead of downsizing to 1.0 liter turbos...

I don't really care who gets in because anyone will be better than Mosley.

I don't really know much about Vatanen's achievment apart from racing. But how he related carbon dioxide talks to stalinism which is apparently trying to win the favors of car manufactures was nothing but a typical, hopeless remark from an average politician.

Voted Ari, gotta be the way forward, most important to me is that he is a proper racer thats got a lot out of the sport and hopefully wants to put something back into it
**** the enviroment :P

I like Todt and he sure is a great leader, but Vatanen has more experience in politics. Although his speech about climate change is the poorest biased piece of senseless rethoric I have ever heard.

Todt would be a great choice for the job. Dunno who this other guy is though...

My vote is for Todt.

Ari Vatanen, reasonably successful rally driver-cum-politican. Won WRC title in the 80's and numerous rallies. He crashed badly during 1985 and though he returned, he never won again.

He also was the king of the Paris-Dakar rally in the early 90s, which he won several times in the Peugeot team managed by no other than...... Jean Todt

He never won a WRC event again after his crash, but he was 1997 Rally Raid world champion, won the Paris-Dakar in 1987, 89, 90 and 91. He also won the Pike's Peak in 1988, setting then the all-time record which held on for years. He came very close to win Finnish Rally of 1000 Lakes (NesteOil Rally), but because of technical failures, he only managed to get few podiums. Last time he was on podium in WRC was in 1998 in Safari Rally Kenya when he was 3rd.

He took his last attempt on Neste Rally Finland in 2003 with Peugeot 206 WRC. He was 11th on the final standings. He was then 50 years old and few old finnish champions had a bet to do the Finnish rally for the last time when they turn to 50. The idea was thrown out by Timo Salonen in 1984, but Hannu Mikkola didn't take part to this bet as he already was 50 years old.

Last time Vatanen raced, was in Dakar Rally in 2007 with VW Touareg. He retired from the event.

Vatanen has been politically active since the end of the 90's. He was MEP for Finland since 1999 until 2004 and after that for France. He didn't got re-elected this year, and I believe it was mostly due his too little campaigning and switch back to Finland after success in France. Vatanen was popular person in the parliament during his time.

Jean Todt has been working in motor sports for a long time, but he's been involved in few scandals during his time in charge in Peugeot and Ferrari. He's to close to Ferrari to be diplomatic for the FIA presidency. Vatanen get's upper hand in here also.

So I definately hope that Vatanen will get this. I don't see any reasons why he wouldn't be suitable.

Vatanen had an idea of some kind of windshield for F1. In his proposal, if you look directly from front to rear drivers helmet is completely covered by this "windshield". So debris coming from forward direction or low angles, could be steered off from the helmet with this device.

Sounds like an considerable idea imo.

http://www.mtv3.fi/urheilu/f1/uutiset.shtml/arkistot/f1/2009/07/921668

I don't think the Windshield would appear in F1 for at least three or four years. It would be hypocrite to introduce it in F1 first and then to the lower formulas, which usually has more of this kind of serious accidents, mostly on national levels. There's twenty-odd F1 cars but then there's hundreds of F3 and other lower classes so the risk is higher. The windshield should be therefore designed for the other FIA series at the same time. Or that's how I see it.

I cannot put in my mind Todt will be an impartial president. It's simply impossible to me.

Not that Vatanen will necessarily be, but Todt had been already involved in some rather strange events (Austria 02).

And Indy 2005 becuase he didn't go to any meetings.

When will Mosley officialy leave office of president?