Max Mosley overcame a sex scandal and won a vote of confidence Tuesday to remain FIA president in a decision that threatens to divide motor racing's governing body.Before the votes were cast in the FIA extraordinary general meeting it was calculated that he needed at least 89 of 177 available votes to win (45 of the 222 clubs were judged ineligible to vote). He won with 103 votes to 55, with seven abstentions and four invalid votes.
With so much opposition to him having come out in public, not least from Bernie Ecclestone and many of the largest automobile clubs that comprise the FIA membership, it remains to be seen whether there will be further attempts to remove him from office.
"The one thing I didn't want to happen, the last thing I wanted, was for Max to go today," - Ecclestone said. "Up until now, I've asked him a million times to stand down at the end of November. But today he got what he wanted. He is still there and that's it."
Van Woerkom said most of Mosley's support came from smaller clubs - which held equal sway in terms of voting power to the national federations - because of the money they received after FIA last year gave Formula One team McLaren a $100-million fine for possessing sensitive documents belonging to rival Ferrari. The FIA and its members received $60 million of that sum.
Mosley is the son of British Union of Fascists party founder Oswald Mosley, a former British politician who served in Parliament for the Labor and Conservative parties. Oswald Mosley died in 1980.
Still the sex scandal was Mosley’s big step down. Now people judge and rule, but who cares? He is the winner!
Sources:
http://217.204.13.141/mediacentre/Press_Releases/The_FIA/2008/June/030608-03.html
http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/6/7869.html
http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/news?slug=ap-fia-mosley-vote&prov=ap&type=lgns
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