President of the Royal Dutch Touring Club, Guido van Woerkom, has blamed the smaller bodies that constitute a part of the FIA for saving the fate of embattled president
Max Mosley in Paris yesterday (Tuesday).
The 68-year old survived the vote of confidence in the FIA Senate – held to judge his ability to continue in the most powerful role in international motorsport in the wake of the damning revelations about his private life published in the
News of the World just over two months ago – by a clear majority of 103 votes to 55.
That ‘victory', though, did not include the support of many of the
FIA's most influential motoring organisations, with the American Automobile Association and its German equivalent the ADAC both already making noises about withdrawing their membership [see separate story –
click here]. van Woerkom fears that they may be far from the only ones, and that regardless of his success in the vote, Mosley is now a ‘lame duck' and cannot continue in his post faced with such opposition.
“When you look to the bigger clubs, the AAA (USA), the triple A in Australia, the JAF (Japan) of 70 million members, the ADAC in Germany, the NWB in the Netherlands, they all are against,” he is quoted as having said by
Planet F1. “When you count the members behind the members, then I don't think he (Mosley) will succeed.”
“There were many people who didn't want to speak to him before,” the
Daily Telegraph quotes him as adding. “I can't think they will want to speak to him now as a result of what has happened. Nothing has changed in that respect. Just because he gets a few clubs from Africa voting for him will not make the King of Spain want to shake his hand.
"The main issue is was he credible to represent us in the world of mobility and sport, and I don't think if you have that behaviour you are a credible man."
