Ari is the obvious choice, a fresh face coming from the otherside of motorsport. Got to be good. Ari for President!!!

How in God's name can Chandok be considered for the post of FIA President? I would like to question his achievements as head of the FMSCI in India. The sport in India has seen far too many issues and the lack of collaboration between different bodies at different levels has left motor sport in the pits. Good drivers find it difficult to get sponsors. Little is done to take motor sports to the grass roots; instead the 'authorities' seem interested in promoting their local talent with cars made from scrap tin and unfortunately, only a few make it further and even they hit a brick wall before they have even sniffed the big league. India may be many great things but it is definitely not home for an FIA President!

"feralphoenix" thanks for your input. The reason I'm bringing up Mr Chandhok's insistance in NOT applying for the job is because he has nothing to be insistant about. He could not possibly be considered in the first place as, being the President of the Federation of Motor Sports in India he obviously has an "interest". This guy is at present working his little socks off to "facilitate" an Indian G.P. Nothing wrong with that but 'impartial'? shall we say perhaps not. Of the other five main protagonists, we have Michel Boeri, who's already V.P. of the WMSC and President of Motor Sports of Monte Carlo he also must surely have an "interest" Jean Todt will always be seen as a Ferrari man (and Max's puppet - not good!) Ron Dennis will always be associated with McLaren and therefore partisan and Nick Craw who already has unfortunately been associated with M. M. via his Deputy Presidency for Sport at the FIA. It is my take on the situation therefore, that all the above have, or at sometime will have, their own agenda. The FIA must be SEEN to be unbiased and squeaky clean. hence Ari Vatanen MUST get the Presidency, and the Presidency itself MUST be on a fixed time period.

The FIA is not just about F1. It encompasses a whole heap of motor sport including something like 30 championships. It's fairly indulgent of us to assume that F1 politics should dictate who heads up this organization. Where as I agree that a non-biased (actual or perceived) president would be good as far as F1 is concerned, I think that the important thing is that we ask "What has this person done for motor sport?" rather than "What has this person done for F1?".

Wow I really love this rant by NofolkandGoode. Let me get this straight - the media have obviously repeatedly asked Mr Chandhok numerous times whether he will consider running. So he comes out and categorically states he is not interested. Norfolksoandso seems to see something wrong in this, enough to go on a long rant, just because Norfolks hasn't heard of Mr Chandhok. It's sad that some people find something negative to say in everything. Mr Chandhok has not saod ANYTHING wrong in what he said. Too many people with negative agendas around.

ARI all the way. He will put a new light on the FIA

Please Maxy take the Man Known as Todt with you and get on a flight to Mars. Why would the paying public want another Ferrair man as Mr P. The whole system stinks. FIA should be seen as impartial to all teams and a fresh breath of Air. We have had 16 years of Maxy, Bernie and Now the Fat ugly and !!!!!! Mr Todt. Get lost."""""

If this gets posted twice, I'm sorry. I may have muckesd up first time........Dear Mr. Chandhok, I don't give a tinker's cuss whether you're interested or not in running for the FIA Presidency. Before I went onto te FIA homepage I'd never heard of you - even my twelve year old daughter has heard iof Ari Vatanen. I'm sure that you're getting well rewarded for 'turning up' but give us fans a break, tell us (and the other two hundred odd FIA members) what YOU'VE done for F1. At least Max has DONE stuff, BAD STUFF, but stuff none the less. So just take your little brown envelope and do as Max told you to!

No one is asking, thank you

Watch your backside there Vicky... you'll get splinters if you stay perched on the fence much longer!