PARIS (AP) -Ari Vatanen hopes his pledge to clean up a sport hit by Formula One's crippling scandals is enough to beat favorite Jean Todt to decide the new head of motor racing's governing body. The two men are the only candidates up for election in Friday's vote to replace Max Mosley, and Todt has backing from the influential and outgoing FIA president. Todt, a 63-year-old Frenchman, is a former Ferrari team principal who revived the fortunes of the flagging Italian team and worked on FIA's World Motor Sport Council. Vatanen is a former world rally and Paris-Dakar champion from Finland who once raced under Todt in the 1980s.Copyright © 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. |
