It didn’t change everything because Ferrari won everything. It changed everything because spectators were unhappy and the FIA misidentified the cause. The spectators who were upset were upset mostly about Ferrari playing with the sport, not about it being dominant in the first place. Most of the people who the FIA thought were unhappy about the predictability were non-F1 watchers in the first place who simply only heard of F1 when Schumacher’s controversies hit the newspaper headlines and weren’t about to watch because the FIA changed a few things (due to their loyalty to whatever their favoured sport was). So instead of restricting itself to banning team orders (which would have fixed the problem just fine), it decided to make everything different to break up the predictability. It didn’t work, the FIA just messed about with the regulations even more to fix something that wasn’t really broken, leading to the present situation.

Joining the MSA, as far as I can tell, doesn’t give you any influence over its choices in and of itself. Unfortunately their website doesn’t tell you what exactly would be required (e.g. whether the representative is elected or appointed), and the FIA website’s not working.

(1) WHO elects the british representative to the FIA? Is it Mosley? No it is the MSA! Why don’t you all guys join the MSA to change their vote!

(2) 180 representative can name somebody to stand for the election, so -unlesss they are all friends of Mosley- they could be some other candidates!

I am amazed that Mosley is always seen as “the devil” I believe it is a very comfortable way to ignore where the real problems are, because the next president will have exactly the same power… It is like the “Ferrari conspiracy”… I can see patterns here and yes sometimes the FIA seems to help Ferrari but:

- Where was the FIA during the almost 20 years where Ferrari didn’t win anything?
- Why did the FIA changed everything Ferrari and Schumi were good at during the past 10 years (V10, qualification format change and so many other things Want a complete list or your start to remember???…)

As you say, nomination does not equal election, but Max has proven time and again that where there’s a will there’s a way, and I doubt he’s figured that sort of failure into his contingency planning.

Alianora Mosley cannot nominate the president, remember these people ARE elected. Now you can challenge the election or who and how people get elected, but please don’t add confusion to it

Also, by nominating Piccinini as President, Mosley will still be able to influence things in the background (whether or not he takes another formal position). Todt can learn exactly how leadership works without taking too much of the responsibility, and they can arrange for how the triple will work in the Todt era at their own leisure.

Seriously, if Todt dose become FIA president, the credability of the orginisation and of F1 will be badly damaged. I honestly don’t know if a red car will ever again recieve a penalty, and the decisions made by the FIA on nearly anything related to F1 would be commented on more frequently than they even are now.

I know Jean Todt for more than 20 years, he was a sportsman and he becames a manager for Peugeot Sport (PTS). He is a very committed person and he knows how to put up an organisation and achieve a goal. This is what he was paid for, and he succeeded quite well leading Peugeot Sport to the Rallye titles and then moved to Ferrari. He did setup the proper strategy to win at Ferrari, and that was with one driver being the number one. Jean Todt is a straightforward man and he is very loyal. He used all the rules by the book to achieve his goals, and if he was to be elected at the FIA he will do exactly the same. Ferrari will have no benefit, not a single one.
I am very proud, as a frenchman, of Jean Todt. He can be single minded and do everything he can to reach his goal, and he will!

But my opinion is that Jean Todt is not interested in this job, Jean wants to enjoy life now…