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This October Formula One racing’s governing body, the FIA, will elect a new President, as Max Mosley steps down after 16 years in the post. The two men running for election are former world rally champion Ari Vatanen and ex-Ferrari team boss Jean Todt. Here Todt discusses his campaign Q: Why do you want to be FIA President
Ari Vatanen has proposed the cabinet members he hopes to install in office, if he wins the FIA Presidential election later this year. With current incumbent Max Mosley set to stand down in October, Vatanen is running against ex-Ferrari team boss Jean Todt to take Mosley’s place in the Formula One governing body’s highest office. The former world rally champion has named German Hermann Tomczyk as his preferred deputy president for motorsport, Spaniard Fernando Falco y Fernandez de Cordova as his candidate to become the president of the FIA senate, and Bernard Tay from Singapore as his nominee for the office of deputy president for mobility…
After travelling back to his home country of Brazil on Monday, Brawn GP’s Rubens Barrichello has wasted no time in catching up with his good friend Felipe Massa. Barrichello visited Massa’s home on Wednesday, as his fellow Brazilian continues to recuperate from the fractured skull he sustained during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Updating his official Twitter page, Barrichello said: I have spent the afternoon with Felipe.
Michael Schumacher’s announcement that he was to stand in for injured team mate Felipe Massa at the European Grand Prix, and his subsequent decision to call off his planned Formula One return on health grounds, has been the story of the summer. On Wednesday the German held a press conference in the Swiss city of Geneva to discuss his decision and give his thoughts on new substitute driver Luca Badoer
Stepping into another driver’s Formula One cockpit is a daunting experience at the best of times, but spare a thought for Luca Badoer, who will climb into the Ferrari F60 at next weekend’s European Grand Prix.
Following the news that Michael Schumacher has had to call off his planned return to Formula One racing at the European Grand Prix later this month, Ferrari have announced that test driver Luca Badoer has been drafted in to race at the Valencia event. Schumacher had hoped to stand in for the injured Felipe Massa, but a neck injury sustained in a motorcycle accident earlier this year, has forced him to abandon his comeback plans.
Michael Schumacher has revealed he won’t return to Formula One racing at the European Grand Prix later this month.
As his planned return to the Formula One cockpit draws ever closer, seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher is to ratchet up his preparations and get back behind the wheel of an F2007 this week. Schumacher has arranged a two-day test at the Italian track, Mugello, from Tuesday. It follows the German’s one-day stint in the two-year-old car, running on GP2 slick tyres, just over a week ago.
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