We cetainly have not had the above qualities and the fact taht Mr Mosely is advocating JT as his successor leaves some doubt in the mind.
Not that we can do anyhting about it -sadly.

At the risk of being in a minority (based on the replies shown at the time of writing), I really think Jean Todt is way ahead in the political game at the moment and that reflects the man’s achievements in the real world. As much as I admire Ari Vatanen as a driver, he has produced little other than well meaning and doubtless heart-felt rhetoric as a presidential candidate. On the basis that past behaviour is the best indicator of future performance, Todt wins my (non-existant) vote as things stand, particularly as the two manifestos appear to be only slightly different when broken down to actual meaning.

I almost feel sorry for Vatanen.

Obviously I’ve never met the guy but from the sofa he looks like a deeply passionate man that would have done anything to protect Ferrari.

I’ve always felt like he has been portrayed as a shady character that would sell his own children to give Ferrari an advantage.

If you applied the old saying ‘would you buy a car of that man?’, my answer would have been ‘no’.

I think my answer is still ‘no’ though….

Deschaux’s main achievement of his tenure was somehow to manage to conspire to lose the French Grand Prix, Mallya should perhaps be concentrating less on politics and more on paying his overdue Ferrari and Mercedes engines bills, ben Sulayem when not smashing up R28s in a straight line, will forever be known as the guy with the brown envelope full of Mosely yes-confidence votes (before becoming an FIA vice-president), and not two months ago Gracia was quoted as saying “Unless Max has gone even more mad I don’t think he’ll back Jean Todt because we all know where he comes from and who he’s linked to”. Imagining what has transpired in the meantime to effect such a turnabout in his opinion is left as an exercise for the reader.

I am sure to some it represents impressive smoky back-room schmoozing, but i think many would feel that is exactly what is killing F1, that sort of shady, one-hand-washes-the-other, cynical, FIA politicking … unfortunatley we don’t get a vote, we just endure the consequences.

Although, if empty-headed Obama-style hopenchange, unicorns and lollipops is really the best that Ari can manage in his proposal, then we’re all truly lost aren’t we.

It seemed that Vatanen appeared at about the time that the FIA/FOTA split was at its height earlier in the summer – was he a FOTA candidate and, now the threat of a split has gone, has his candidacy become an irrelevance to the teams?