Comments on: Jean Todt is the new FIA president

By: F1Troll

F1Troll — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:43:00 +0000

By: Harv's

Harv's — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:35:31 +0000

Are you saying that we will have a track that is not designed by Mr. (boring) Tilke! YES! i dont think bernie will be too please though!

By: Maksutov

Maksutov — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:16:28 +0000

@Achilles

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.

By: GeorgeK

GeorgeK — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:22:23 +0000

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!

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:32:00 +0000

Well it’s not a surprise. It certainly is a big downer for the people who already accuse the FIA of pulling for Ferrari (like me). I can only hope for a few things:

- 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.

By: Achilles

Achilles — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:34:14 +0000

That begs the question ‘why bother to cheat then?’ when you are so ‘exceptional’? sorry m8, in life you are allways remembered for what you do wrong…

By: marc

marc — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:00:26 +0000

If ferrari get to run 3 cars, schumacher wins another 5 seasons we know who is to blame

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:43:48 +0000

http://www.planet-f1.com/story/0,18954,3261_5648212,00.html

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

By: Patrickl

Patrickl — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:42:32 +0000

I’m surprised it wasn’t in the article itself actually, but Todt proposed to install an F1 commissioner, set up some F1 tribunal that will deal with disciplinary issues and also “fix” the stewards problem (get rid of Donnely I guess).

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.

By: Patrickl

Patrickl — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:34:19 +0000

We’re arguing the politics of FIA presidential elections.

Stop whining about “crap”