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Max Mosley on Friday rescinded his decision to resign as FIA president after motorsport's governing body said his early departure would harm its interests.
The FIA Senate unanimously called on Mosley not to step down in October 2004 and to continue in office at least until the end of his mandate in October 2005.
FIA reported that Mosley said he had "received approaches from all sections of the FIA making the same points as the Senate and even going as far as to say that it would be irresponsible for him to step down this year.
"Accordingly, he feels bound to accede to the Senates request. He expressed his thanks for the confidence shown in him both by the Senate and the full membership of the FIA."
Mosley, 64, announced his early departure from FIA earlier this month. The Briton has driven through a swathe of changes to Formula One racing in the face of opposition from many teams who claimed the changes were a knee-jerk reaction to slumping TV ratings in the wake of Michael Schumacher's seemingly unending success at Ferrari.
Further reforms agreed in May for the 2008 season will see a new engine format, a single tyre supplier and a ban on electronic driver aids. Mosley says the changes will ensure closer racing and more overtaking.
Mosley played a leading role in the Formula One war of 1980-82 between FISA (FIA's sporting subsidiary) and the constructors organisation FOCA, which led to the Concorde Agreement which effectively put control of all commercial interests into FOCA chief Bernie Ecclestone's hands.
Mosley, who was FOCA's lawyer from 1977, ousted Jean-Marie Balestre as president of the FISA in 1991 and stood down a year later when he was re-elected for a four-year term. He then merged the FIA and the FISA and in October 1993 became the FIA president for a four year period. He was re-elected in October 1997 and again in 2001.
Source AFP
Now make some bl**dy changes to make the whole thing more interesting will you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The FIA Senate unanimously called on Mosley not to step down in October 2004 and to continue in office at least until the end of his mandate in October 2005.
FIA reported that Mosley said he had "received approaches from all sections of the FIA making the same points as the Senate and even going as far as to say that it would be irresponsible for him to step down this year.
"Accordingly, he feels bound to accede to the Senates request. He expressed his thanks for the confidence shown in him both by the Senate and the full membership of the FIA."
Mosley, 64, announced his early departure from FIA earlier this month. The Briton has driven through a swathe of changes to Formula One racing in the face of opposition from many teams who claimed the changes were a knee-jerk reaction to slumping TV ratings in the wake of Michael Schumacher's seemingly unending success at Ferrari.
Further reforms agreed in May for the 2008 season will see a new engine format, a single tyre supplier and a ban on electronic driver aids. Mosley says the changes will ensure closer racing and more overtaking.
Mosley played a leading role in the Formula One war of 1980-82 between FISA (FIA's sporting subsidiary) and the constructors organisation FOCA, which led to the Concorde Agreement which effectively put control of all commercial interests into FOCA chief Bernie Ecclestone's hands.
Mosley, who was FOCA's lawyer from 1977, ousted Jean-Marie Balestre as president of the FISA in 1991 and stood down a year later when he was re-elected for a four-year term. He then merged the FIA and the FISA and in October 1993 became the FIA president for a four year period. He was re-elected in October 1997 and again in 2001.
Source AFP
Now make some bl**dy changes to make the whole thing more interesting will you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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