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MOSLEY VOTE 'A JOKE'
EXCLUSIVE By IAN GORDON
THE crucial vote to decide the future of shamed F1 boss Max Mosley has been branded 'a complete joke'. Multi-millionaire Mosley is refusing to resign as president of the FIA following our story of his sordid Nazi orgy with five prostitutes. The 109 member countries of motor racing's governing body will decide whether to boot him out at an extraordinary general assembly in Paris on June 3. Mosley has to quit now, says F1 chief But there are fears the vote will not reflect the true feelings of motorsport chiefs and the millions of members of the worldwide motoring organisations.
Wealth
Britain's triple world champion Jackie Stewart has called for a change in the voting procedure. He blasted: "You don't often go to your family asking them if you should resign, do you? There are too many vested interests. It should be done from the outside." The American Automobile Association, the largest body on the FIA with more than 50million members, gets just ONE vote — the same as the Vatican which, incredibly, also has a representative. Technically, it means even the Pope has a say on Mosley's future. Other countries like Britain and Germany have no bigger input than smaller nations in Africa and South America, who are financially dependent on the massive wealth of the FIA. The Motor Sports Association, which represents 750 clubs with over 100,000 members in Britain, gets one vote - as will Germany's automobile association ADAC, the largest of its kind in Europe with more than 15 million members. They have already issued a statement calling for Mosley to resign.
Resign
ADAC's membership is almost double the entire population of Azerbaijan, which also gets one vote as a member of the FIA, as do countries like Madagascar, Burundi and Bangladesh which have little motorsport tradition and small motoring organisations. And, amazingly, if there is a tie then Mosley himself has the CASTING VOTE in his role as president. Stewart said: "Max should resign but I don't think he will. He just thinks he is bullet-proof." Former F1 team boss Paul Stoddart added: "The vote on June 3 is a joke. "The fact that it comes just a week after the Monaco Grand Prix is no coincidence. "
Max has put Prince Albert of Monaco in an embarrassing position, especially after the Crown Prince of Bahrain told him not to attend last week's Bahrain Grand Prix. "But Monaco is Max's powerbase. It's where he lives and where the FIA have offices. "He will go to Monaco and be as brazen as usual.
Luxury
"Then he will go to the EGA a few days later and railroad them, saying: ‘Look I went to Monaco and was able to carry on my duties as president, so what's the problem with me continuing?' "It is just ridiculous. And before the meeting he will do what he always did before he was up for election as president. "He will go to the smaller countries promising them this and that."
The Monaco Grand Prix on May 25 is the most important race in the F1 calendar.Chief executives from the major sponsors and car companies, which keep the £2billion-a-year sport afloat, fly in for meetings and parties aboard luxury yachts. Mosley is not expected at the Spanish Grand Prix in a fortnight or the race in Turkey two weeks later. Stoddart also claimed Mosley, 67, has previously threatened to strip America and Australia of all motorsport if they went against him. Stoddart, former chief of Minardi — now run as Toro Rosso — insisted Mosley pressured Indianapolis Speedway boss Tony George during the infamous 2005 United States Grand Prix farce when only six cars raced. The seven teams who ran on Michelin tyres pulled out amid safety fears following several high-speed crashes during practice.
Chicane
Indy boss George had offered to put a temporary chicane in the track to slow cars and ensure the full grid took part but this was blocked by Mosley. Stoddart revealed: "The teams were prepared to race with a chicane. "I was in the meeting room with Tony, Bernie Ecclestone and some of the team bosses when Tony took a call from the FIA representative in North America. Max had been on to him, which is the way he always worked, with threats. "Tony got off the phone and said to us: ‘Max has threatened to black motorsport in the US if we race with a chicane'. "That incident caused massive damage to F1 in America just when it was trying to become a force there and Michelin had to pay millions in compensation after Max charged them with bringing the sport into disrepute. "And I was in a room with 21 other people in Australia a few months earlier when he threatened to take the grand prix away from Australia in a dispute over our cars.
Revenge
"That was after we had gone to the Supreme Court in Victoria to get a writ allowing us to run with the old cars. "If I had not backed down, even though I had won a legal right in a legitimate court, then Max would have stripped Australia of its race. "Max has now given the teams a chance to get rid of him. "It's what they've wanted for years and I'm disappointed so few have spoken out. "If he gets through this, then they won't have the right to say anything about him because they would have missed their chance. And he will take his revenge." Mosley has already been told to quit by a clutch of former world champions, four of the major car manufacturers in F1 and several of the key motoring federations throughout the world. The Motor Sports Association, which governs motor racing in Britain, will help decide Mosley's fate. The MSA, whose chairman Alan Gow is seen as a potential candidate to succeed Mosley, has refused to join similar organisations throughout the world in condemning him over his sordid sex sessions in a torture chamber with hookers dressed in Nazi-style uniforms. But an MSA insider said: "It would be a massive gamble with the future of British motorsport if the MSA comes out against Mosley and then he survives the vote. "You could then say goodbye to the British F1 race and our round of the World Rally Championship. "The negotiations for the next contract for the British GP at Silverstone are also at a very delicate stage. "It is not about the good of the sport anymore. It is about politics."
My Butt Jiggle Is Just My Little Way of Waving Good-Bye. -- Maxineism