in life you are allways remembered for what you do wrong…

I dont doubt that. People believe what they feel to believe, and see what they wish to see. But the facts are there records and history is there that show the exceptional driving skills. I am looking at MS as a driver and not some bad English political figure. The reality is that MS never really got away with any of his personal cheats – of course that doesn’t change the fact that he attempted those things. But team orders are different – blame the team for that.

I am not gonna bloody go through the history what happen and how he drove, everyone saw it. The reality is that MS was always competitive because he had exceptional consistency over many many years. You cant kill the truth dude no matter how much you wish you could.

Now the question is if he will actually go through with this, who will fill those functions and if they are puppets or real people

Why, none other than Todt’s “Other son”, Michael Schumacher! We go from Max’s depraved perversions to Le Toad’s version of nepotism. Regardless of whoever he appoints as a commissioner of F1 they will answer to Le Toad, who no doubt will be answering to Max and Bernie.

And the beat goes on!

- Less rules
- Clearer rules
- Most importantly: CONSISTENT PUNISHMENT. What the’re doing now is so arbitrary. One gets fined, the other gets a drive-through, again another gets 25 seconds of penalty etc. This is destroying formula 1 IMO since you never know who really has the pole position or won the race untill about 3 or 4 hours after the race. This also has to do with the clarity of the rules. Sometimes people got punished and it wasn’t clear what they did wrong. It was a little better this year (since Ferrari couldn’t win the championship anymore) but 2008 was awfull in this respect.

Davies has had a go already. Some good suggestions, I think, especially getting rid of Donnelly.

Quite a lot of change (improvement) actually and it would help prevent the conflict of interest that might arise when Todt is presiding over a disciplinary hearing about some F1 offence that is related to Ferrari.

Now the question is if he will actually go through with this, who will fill those functions and if they are puppets or real people.

Stop whining about “crap”

But, let’s suspend belief. How about an article, Keith, on what, specifically, Todt COULD do in his first weeks of the presidency to set things straight and signal to the world that he’s on board with real reform? For example, appointing permanent stewards might be one step. He has said it’s time for unity. There are things he can do to show it’s not just political blah. What are they?

Maciek I totally agree with your point on the whole that is too big a sport and it is beyond ones possible imagination as to what is really happening under the cover.

Otherwise yeh we really need to see how Jean takes up the role. It is all in his hands to really give value to the position he is elected into.

Toad won the election just cuz of 2 things:

1) Money power
2) Support from MM

What extra has he got to offer that the above mentioned men can’t?

It’s just that for my money, and this purely my opinion, no matter which way you slice it, there was just a smell of impudent arrogance in the way that Todt ran his team in Schumacher’s heyday.

And last, but certainly not least: the whole point is that Ron Dennis is not FIA president, but Jean Todt now is – and that is an office which is supposed to impartially regulate the sport. And nothing, but absolutely nothing that Jean Todt did at Ferrari convinces me that he is an impartial man.