четверг, 15 марта 2012 г.

Vatanen takes on Todt in FIA election

Ari Vatanen hopes his pledge to clean up a sport hit by Formula One's crippling scandals is enough to beat favorite Jean Todt in Friday's vote to decide the new head of motor racing's governing body.

The two men are the only candidates to replace Max Mosley, and Todt has backing from the influential and outgoing FIA president. Todt, a 63-year-old Frenchman, is a former Ferrari team principal who revived the fortunes of the flagging Italian team, and also worked on FIA's World Motor Sport Council.

Vatanen is a former world rally and Paris-Dakar champion from Finland who once raced under Todt in the 1980s.

"My role is to offer an alternative …

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