Jody Scheckter to give back F1 title?
There has been no shortage of recent complaints over Max Mosley's leadership of the FIA. Last year, it looked like he'd be forced out of his position at the head of the motorsport governing body, while this year he's been at the source of controversy over new regulations that could yet see the majority of the teams in Formula One walk out. But few are as appalled by Mosley's leadership as Jody Scheckter.The 59-year-old 1979 F1 World Champion, who remained Ferrari's last champion until the Schumacher era, has admitted that the FIA's leadership, which he characterized as a dictatorship gone wrong, has caused him to consider handing back his title. The only Jewish world champion in Formula One history, Scheckter's opposition to Mosley – the son of a British fascist leader with strong ties to the Nazi party and a character recently embroiled in an alleged Nazi-themed S&M orgy – are perhaps more deeply rooted than most.
[Source: F1-Live | Image: Bryn Lennon/Getty]
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6speedSTICK 9:40AM (5/18/2009)
max needs to be removed. he's an irrational disgrace.
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tpp 9:49AM (5/18/2009)
Mosley is still just an errand boy of Ecclestone's.
cFoo 10:26AM (5/18/2009)
Agreed! MadMax needs to go. So are the people who gave him the last vote of confidents.
Brian 11:45AM (5/18/2009)
He should have gone two years ago. He is a disgrace to F1 and the reason I stopped using products that supported him after his nazi s&m party.
Richard 9:43AM (5/18/2009)
I think that Scheckter giving back his title would give greater importance to Max's skewed regime than to F1's great history of which Jodie was such a great part.
Don't do it man. Don't protest. Help make the change instead.
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LHP 10:23AM (5/18/2009)
Enh, I don't know anything about Scheckter, but it probably isn't good form to ascribe the depth of his feelings about Mosley to his Jewishness.
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Flea 12:48PM (5/18/2009)
that's quite clever. Giving back his F1 title wouldn't dent his reputation as champion the slightest bit, and might even improve it, while FIA would take a massive media hit.
It's like Italy giving back their football world cup because they don't agree with FIFA...they'd still be considered the rightful champions by the people.
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tuna 2:29PM (5/18/2009)
Isn't Bernie Jewish? He doesn't seem to mind Mosely.
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markokenya 2:38PM (5/18/2009)
Ecclestone and Mosley need to go before any more silly stuff happens.
Max is now officially dysfunctional and has lost the last of his marbles.
Bernie has had his day. He is a genius and has ridden many rough seas but it is now time to sell F1 to a more corporate and less "village idiot" image. Sell it to a media group like Sky or Fox. Pay the emperor and his monkey to stay away, and get going with a whole new crazy wonderful circus.
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