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Pitiful Mosley Recants Decision To Quit In Tantrum, Formula One Peace Agreement In Serious QuestionBy Mike Sulka
The King-of-pop Michael Jackson has apparently just died at age 50 according to reports at the LA Times, but Max Mosley just as crazily raised himself from the dead.
After a thorough whipping at the hands of the FOTA teams during the FIA's war on the Formula One teams, it appeared that Formula One's threatened future was finally in good hands with yesterday's announcement that the F1 rules would revert to 2009, and that Mosley would go quietly away in the afternoon into a fully dis-graced retirement... hopefully to never be heard from again.
But instead, its once again clear the man can't be trusted, and he'll find any cause to whine, complain, and thrust his pitiful self back into the forefront of the media for his own self-serving reasons.
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A letter published/broke at racefax.com indicated that, the FIA boss whined in a letter, "Given your and FOTA's deliberate attempt to mislead the media, I now consider my options open. At least until October, I am president of the FIA with the full authority of that office. After that it is the FIA member clubs, not you or FOTA, who will decide on the future leadership of the FIA."
How quaint.
The reality continues that the FIA Boss really has no cards to play other than his continued future. The FIA has announced the list of teams for 2010, yet FOTA has yet to publish written confirmation that they have accepted the terms of Mosley's agreement.
According to the report, Mosley is saying a condition of 'truthful'-ness to the media was broken. He cries, "I was therefore astonished to learn that FOTA has been briefing the press that Mr Boeri has taken charge of Formula 1, something which you know is completely untrue; that I had been forced out of office, also false; and, apparently, that I would have no role in the FIA after October, something which is plain nonsense, if only because of the FIA statutes."
Mosley goes on to grouse about the word 'dictator'
Mosley threatened, "If you wish the agreement we made to have any chance of survival, you and FOTA must immediately rectify your actions. You must correct the false statements which have been made and make no further such statements. You yourself must issue a suitable correction and apology at your press conference this afternoon."
That statement did not come.
While fire-fights are known to follow peace agreements in war... What makes this situation uncertain is that the guns being fired are by those who signed the peace accords.
Mosley is not going to go quietly... He just said he was leaving long enough to make it through the WMSC meeting on Wednesday, and avoid the humiliation of being fired on the spot.
Its long past time for Max to go... Its long past time for him to put away his pen. He is of no use to the FIA or its future, or the future of Formula One.
PaddockTalk Perspective
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