{"id":19887,"date":"2013-11-14T20:21:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T01:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19887"},"modified":"2013-11-14T20:21:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T01:21:33","slug":"todt-to-remain-fia-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/todt-to-remain-fia-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Todt to remain FIA president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Todt will remain president of F1&#8217;s governing body, the FIA, for a second term.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Jean-Todt-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Jean-Todt-2.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The Frenchman&#8217;s only rival to dethrone him in next month&#8217;s elections, Briton David Ward, announced on Thursday he is pulling out of the race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has not proved possible for me to secure the required number of regional vice presidents for sport to ensure the eligibility of my list,&#8221; he wrote in a letter to FIA member clubs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I, therefore, would like to offer my congratulations to Jean Todt who will secure a second term uncontested if not unopposed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Michael Schmidt, the respected correspondent for Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport, said Ward has been highly critical of the FIA&#8217;s election rules.<\/p>\n<p>Ward, who described the process as &#8220;highly undemocratic&#8221;, needed the support of at least 37 clubs simply to be eligible for the election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An outsider,&#8221; Schmidt said, &#8220;has virtually no chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Todt will remain president of F1&#8217;s governing body, the FIA, for a second term. The Frenchman&#8217;s only rival to dethrone him in next month&#8217;s elections, Briton David Ward, announced on Thursday he is pulling out of the race. &#8220;It has not proved possible for me to secure the required number of regional vice presidents &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2120,3],"tags":[4604,5262,5300,5340,284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19888,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19887\/revisions\/19888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}