Todt linked to FIA role
When Jean Todt's current Ferrari contract comes to an end after the 2006 season, he could be invited to join the FIA as deputy president, according to a story in the May edition of Autosport's sister magazine F1 Racing (on sale today, April 9)
The F1 Racing story suggests that Todt will assume the deputy presidency in 2007, as a Max Mosley (the current president) appointee.
"Jean Todt is one of several people who would make an excellent FIA president, but as far as I know he is as happy as he is successful in his present position," Mosley told F1 Racing. We need not point out that this statement is very far from being a refutation of F1 Racing's story.
"It seems plausible," team principal Eddie Jordan told F1 Racing, "but it's still only a rumour. But Jean is very experienced in this area, and the fact that he is on the FIA World Motorsport Council shines more light on him. I'm sure it's a reasonable rumour, to be honest."
Would Todt do a good job? Jordan reckoned: "Jean is a highly professional person - as evidenced clearly by the upturn in performance at Ferrari upon the arrival of him, Michael [Schumacher], Ross [Brawn], Rory [Byrne] and others. That's enough proof that he's more than capable of pulling the FIA around."
Todt declined to comment.
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