Max Mosley has said the words many Formula One fans were hoping not to hear: I'm not quitting.
The FIA President in fact even went as far as to say that the current political crisis in Formula One may force him to run for re-election in October.
"I don't want to go on too long, but the difficulty they are putting me in is that even if I wanted to stop this October, they are making it very difficult for me to do so," said he told the BBC.
"So actually everything they are doing is counterproductive because the people in the FIA are saying we have all this trouble, we are being attacked and you must stay.
"Whereas if we had peace and I said I would actually like to stop in October, then they are very nice. They all say they want me to stay, but they wouldn't really mind and someone else would come along."
Mosley's comments come in the wake of fresh calls for his resignation made by F1 personality as Jackie Stewart, who reckons Mosley's is largely to blame for Friday's decision by FOTA to leave F1 and start their own series.
Mosley, however, doesn't believe FOTA will carry through on their threat.
"I don't take it as seriously as some people do because I know that it is all posturing and posing," he said.
"It will all stop sometime between the beginning of 2010 and March 2010, the first race. All this will stop, it will all settle down and everyone will go racing."
"I am completely confident because in the end people do what it is in their interests to do.
"It is in the interests of the teams to be in the F1 world championship and there is actually no fundamental or important issue that is stopping them taking part.
"It is all about personalities and power and who can grab what from whom, which is easy when nothing is at stake but when it gets to the first race and it is make your mind up time, they will be there."
