Mosley not to seek another term as FIA boss: Ecclestone

September 28th, 2009 LONDON - Bernie Ecclestone has reiterated that he will continue to run Formula One despite copping some criticism about how he has been handling the sport from Sir Martin Sorrell, a director of the company that owns the sport. Ecclestone, who owns the commercial rights to F1 through his company Formula One Management, said at the Singapore race that the comments were just sticks and stones and not the start of a campaign to oust him from his post, The Sun reports.

September 1st, 2009 Ecclestone worried Renault may pull out of F1LONDON — Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone is worried Renault may pull out of the sport following accusations the team ordered a crash to help Fernando Alonso win a race. Renault's departure would be a blow to a sport that lost Honda after last year's championship and is set to lose BMW at the end of this season.

July 16th, 2009 Mosley-backed Todt will run for FIA presidencyPARIS — Former Ferrari team principal Jean Todt will join the race to succeed Max Mosley as president of Formula One's governing body. Todt made his candidacy official on Thursday, a day after Mosley backed the 63-year-old Frenchman to lead the FIA as he announced he would not seek a fifth term in October's election.

July 10th, 2009 Vatanen will challenge Mosley for FIA presidencyLONDON — Former World Rally champion Ari Vatanen launched his campaign for the presidency of Formula One's governing body on Friday still believing incumbent Max Mosley may seek a fifth term. Despite speaking to Mosley before confirming his FIA candidacy, Vatanen is no clearer about whether the 69-year-old Briton will stand for another term.

July 7th, 2009 LONDON - Formula One commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone has claimed that there has been a "big misunderstanding" over his comments about Nazi dictator Hitler that appeared in the press over the weekend. Ecclestone had said that Hitler was a "man who could get things done" during an interview in which he expressed strong views on dictators.

July 6th, 2009 Ecclestone calls Hitler flap 'misunderstanding'BERLIN — Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone says the furor over his reported comment that Adolf Hitler got "things done" is a misunderstanding. The German daily newspaper Bild quoted Ecclestone in a story published Monday as saying that "this was all a big misunderstanding." The World Jewish Congress had called for Ecclestone to resign after his comments appeared in The Times of London on Saturday.

July 4th, 2009 LONDON — Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone faced criticism from politicians and Jewish groups Saturday after being quoted as saying that Adolf Hitler "got things done." In an interview with London's The Times newspaper, Ecclestone expressed a preference for "strong leaders," citing former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Max Mosley, outgoing head of Formula One's governing body, as examples. He was quoted as saying that democracy "hasn't done a lot of good for many countries — including this one." "In a lot of ways, terrible to say this I suppose, but apart from the fact that Hitler got taken away and persuaded to do things that I have no idea whether he wanted to do or not, he was in the way that he could command a lot of people, able to get things done," Ecclestone was quoted as saying.

July 1st, 2009 CHENNAI - Vicky Chandhok Wednesday confirmed that he is in the running for the post of the president of the Paris-based Federation Internationale de lAutomobile (FIA), the worlds governing body for motor sport. Chandhok, the Chennai-based former president of the Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI), told IANS: "The papers have to be filed by September as the FIA General Assembly is scheduled for October 23.

June 25th, 2009 HAMBURG - Formula One racing was the winner when Max Mosley caved in to a group of rebel teams to ensure the future of the sport, insiders and the international media said Thursday. A deal struck Wednesday between eight teams organized in the umbrella body FOTA and the world governing body FIA run by Mosley ended a bitter two-month standoff in which the teams had threatened to form a breakaway deal.

June 24th, 2009 PARIS - The World Motor Sport Council of the ruling body FIA gathered Wednesday for a crucial meeting regarding the future of Formula One over a row between the governing body and eight teams. A showdown between FIA president Max Mosley and Luca di Montezemolo, president of Ferrari and the team umbrella organization FOTA, was anticipated at the Paris event.

June 24th, 2009 Mosley: Deal reached for unified F1 championshipPARIS — FIA president Max Mosley says there will be a unified Formula One championship in 2010 after reaching a cost-cutting deal with the eight teams which threatened to form a rival series. As a result of Wednesday's deal in Paris, Mosley says: "I will not be up for re-election now we have peace." Mosley had announced over the weekend that he was seriously considering running for a fifth term as head of F1's governing body.

June 24th, 2009 FIA panel meet amid threat of F1 breakaway seriesPARIS — Motor sport's ruling body opened what could be an acrimonious meeting at its Paris headquarters on Wednesday, nearly a week after Formula One teams announced plans to set up a rival series. The dispute between the Formula One Teams Association — representing eight of the current 10 F1 teams — and the FIA centers on the teams' objection to the ruling body's planned introduction of a budget cap for the 2010 season.

June 23rd, 2009 HAMBURG - Max Mosley may not seek another term as president of the ruling motorsport body FIA which could put an end to a Formula One row in which eight teams have threatened to form a breakaway series. British daily The Times said Tuesday that Mosley was considering not seeking another term atop FIA, but only if the head of the teams' association FOTA, Luca di Montezemolo, refrains from an attack on him at a meeting of FIA's World Motor Sport Council Wednesday.

June 21st, 2009 Mosley says deal to solve F1 crisis is closeSILVERSTONE, England — FIA president Max Mosley said on Sunday that a deal is close to prevent eight Formula One teams from forming a rival series and that legal action would be halted to encourage a resolution. Motor sport's governing body had said that legal proceedings would be begin without delay after the Formula One Teams Association decided to split on Friday when talks broke down to resolve a dispute over a voluntary budget cap for next year.

June 10th, 2009 Coroner: Max Mosley's son died from drug overdoseLONDON — The son of auto racing boss Max Mosley died from an accidental drug overdose last month, a London coroner said Wednesday. Alexander Mosley was found dead at his luxury apartment on May 5.