Ari Vatanen Announces Vice-Presidents for FIA Role
25 Sep 2009, 14:46 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Ari Vatanen today decided to strike back in his campaign for the FIA presidency and announced his vice-presidents for his first mandate. The Finnish official selected his collaborates from a wide ra...
Ecclestone Supports Todt for FIA Presidency
25 Sep 2009, 13:13 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / After Max Mosley, Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone also announced his public support for former Ferrari-an Jean Todt for the presidency of the FIA. Talking to the media in Singapore, the 78-yea...
Bahrain Confirms Support for Todt in FIA Elections
25 Sep 2009, 10:23 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / A few days before making his first ever appearance in the Formula One paddock as candidate for the FIA presidency, Frenchman Jean Todt received another boost for the October elections. As announced ...
Vatanen Not Granted F1 Pass at Monza
15 Sep 2009, 09:39 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Neither Ari Vatanen nor Jean Todt were seen in the Formula One paddock or walking down the grid at Monza, during last weekend's Italian Grand Prix. However, while the Frenchman was not even pre...
Jackie Stewart Declines Offer to Run for FIA Presidency
14 Sep 2009, 12:50 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Now that his long-time rival Max Mosley has decided to step down from the FIA presidential seat, triple Formula One champion Jackie Stewart revealed that he has been asked by a high-profile F1 repre...
14 FIA Clubs Confirm Support for Ari Vatanen
11 Sep 2009, 08:10 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Ari Vatanen's chances of clinching the FIA presidency this autumn received a boost on Thursday, after a group of 14 FIA member clubs have issued a supporting letter to the Finnish candidate. In...
Jean Todt Supported by the French Federation
27 Aug 2009, 17:29 UTC · By: Alexandru Radu Chis / The race for the FIA presidency is apparently going to be an interesting battle in October. The newest information on the matter came from France, where the president of the motor racing federation ...
Ari Vatanen Presents Election Agenda to the FIA
21 Aug 2009, 13:30 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / More than a week after Jean Todt presented his manifesto for the FIA presidency, rival candidate Ari Vatanen also sent a letter to all the members of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) ex...
Jean Todt Dismisses Favoritism Allegations If FIA President
14 Aug 2009, 10:38 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Former Ferrarian and current candidate for the FIA presidency Jean Todt today insisted that he will be totally impartial in his relationship with the Formula One teams. Although he was heavily linke...
Ari Vatanen Announces Members for FIA Role
14 Aug 2009, 09:49 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / After Jean Todt last week revealed his election agenda for the FIA presidency, it's now Ari Vatanen's turn to announce the members that are going to support him in the race against the Fre...
Mosley Continues to Back Todt for the FIA Presidency
11 Aug 2009, 07:56 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Although this has constantly attracted plenty of public critics from Ari Vatanen, current FIA president Max Mosley continued to lobby for former Ferrari boss Jean Todt. The 69-year old Brit couldn&#...
FOTA Denies Non-Supportive Position Towards Jean Todt
24 Jul 2009, 09:11 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / A spokesman for the Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) yesterday explained the position of the teams' alliance regarding the upcoming election for the FIA presidency. He strongly denied media...
Alain Prost Might Have FIA Role in the Todt Administration
23 Jul 2009, 09:13 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Jean Todt received yet another boost in his fight for the FIA presidency, as it surfaced in the media that former 3-time world champion Alain Prost considers taking a FIA role alongside his countrym...
Todt Tells Vatanen to Show More Respect
23 Jul 2009, 07:56 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / After the FIA has issued the necessary clarification regarding Ari Vatanen's accusations directed at Jean Todt – that he's using FIA money to sustain his campaign, plus some other st...
FIA Slams Vatanen for Todt Attack
22 Jul 2009, 10:06 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Jean Todt might not hit back at Ari Vatanen's accusations towards him – as he prefers to focus on his own campaign for the FIA presidential seat – but the international body did not...
Todt Refuses to Hit Back at Vatanen's Critics
21 Jul 2009, 08:57 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Although he insisted he will not take on a dirty approach on the battle for the FIA presidency this October against new candidate Jean Todt, the Finn issued no less than two public attacks on the fo...
Vatanen Continues Battle for FIA Presidency
20 Jul 2009, 15:18 UTC · By: Alexandru Radu Chis / Ari Vatanen, who is aiming to become the next FIA president, accused Jean Todt of touring around the world as a FIA representative and with FIA paid and supported campaign. The 57-year-old Finn, who...
Vatanen Slams Mosley for Public Backing of Todt
17 Jul 2009, 14:34 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Ari Vatanen did not take long to launch a few critics at current president of the FIA Max Mosley for publicly asking the member clubs of the ruling federation to give their votes to former Ferrari F...
Vatanen Hits Back at Mosley-Todt Alliance
16 Jul 2009, 13:20 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / The fact that Max Mosley publicly admitted his full support for former Ferrari boss Jean Todt for the FIA presidency was certainly no good news for the other candidate for the FIA job, former rallyi...
Jean Todt Confirms Run for FIA Presidency
16 Jul 2009, 12:46 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Less than 24 hours after FIA president Max Mosley publicly revealed he will back Jean Todt for the presidency of the ruling body in October should he decide to run for it, the former Ferrari boss co...