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Mosley standing on firm FIA ground

Max Mosley is confident that he will not be ousted from the FIA amid the ongoing rows between the sports governing body and FOTA (Formula One Teams Association), which announced its own breakaway series on Friday. Although some believe that Mosley's exit would ease the pain between the two parties, the man himself has said that the opposite effect would take place.

With eight teams looking to bid adieu to F1 at the end of 2009 before creating a rival championship, rumours of Max Mosley's exit from the FIA state that a new leader being drafted in to agree with FOTA could rapidly solve the overall issue, to which Mosley replied to the BBC: "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; 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'."

He went on to describe that, in the event of a new leader being elected, more advantage would be taken from the FIA, resulting in more conflicting situations "Everybody knows it wouldn't be (peaceful), because the next person they would want his head, and the person after that, his head, until they got what they wanted, which is the power to run the sport away from the FIA," Mosley went on. "It would be exactly the same with Bernie (Ecclestone, commercial rights holder).

"I am the figurehead because I happen to be the (FIA) president, but I cannot move without the authority of all these different countries. We have 120 different countries and each is represented by the head of motorsport in that country; it is a huge organisation, so the idea that it (the culprit of the argument) is somehow me, that is really not the issue.

"What you cannot do is walk away from an organisation in the middle of a crisis."

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