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