Max Mosley has resisted pressure to stand again as FIA president and will back Frenchman Jean Todt to succeed him after 16 years in charge of world motorsport.
The 69-year-old Mosley announced last month that he wouldn’t seek a fifth term after brokering a deal with the Formula One Teams Association to avert a rival series. However, he then said in a subsequent newspaper interview that he might reconsider that decision.
Mosley said on Wednesday he received “almost 100 messages from FIA member clubs urging me to think again†but that he felt it was time to move on.
“Extremely grateful though I am for all the letters, e-mails and messages I have received, I have decided to reconfirm my decision. I will not be a candidate in October,†Mosley wrote in a letter to the FIA membership… Details
Facing serious challenges from both competitors and the weather, Team Falken put on a valiant effort, but when it rolled the dice at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Round 4 of the demanding Formula Drift competition, the team managed to make the semi-finals, with Falken’s Tyler McQuarrie losing to eventual overall winner Tanner Foust. McQuarrie placed fourth.
With track temperatures peaking at 145-degrees, and air temps at 110 degrees, great stress was placed on the high-revving engines of all competitors as well as the drivers themselves. During the consolation round to determine third place, McQuarrie suffered camshaft position sensor failure, but his crew was able to replace it in less than five minutes.
Teamwork became the order of the day. During practice on Friday night, Darren McNamara’s Saturn Sky blew its …Â Details
The past two races demonstrate that Brawn GP has entered the “second phase” of the team’s career in Formula One, according to an expert observer.
After dominating six of the opening seven grands prix this year, the Brackley based team succumbed to the superiority of Red Bull Racing at Silverstone and the Nurburgring.
“For Brawn, the solitude and isolation since the departure of Honda is beginning to weigh,” former F1 team manager Joan Villadelprat, who recently made a bid to bring his Spanish outfit Epsilon Euskadi into the sport in 2010, said…Â DetailsÂ