Todt wanted Ferrari to reveal 'secret' agreement
Jean Todt admits that the legality of Ferrari's 2019 engine will "absolutely" remain questioned by some.
The FIA president has been blasted for agreeing a 'secret' settlement with the Maranello team he once led.
But Todt has now defended the federation's actions in conversation with France's L'Equipe.
"The FIA has a few engineers and we respond to teams that have several hundred," he said.
"One of my first measures was to tell the teams that if they have doubts, to write a complaint. For a few months, when our team was working with Ferrari, we were still having doubts."
But Todt said Ferrari never admitted to doing anything wrong.
"Ferrari did not recognise that it was doing something against the spirit of the rules - no, no, no," he said.
"We were faced with doubts about something that Ferrari did not recognise, but that doubt no longer exists because now it is forbidden to do what we think they could have been doing.
"But we cannot demonstrate that they did. So we could have gone to the court of appeal without knowing for sure the length of the process. We concluded that it was not in the interest of the sport to reach that level of litigation."
And so he said the "confidential agreement" was reached, which was "requested by Ferrari because they were within their rights".
"Personally, I would have liked Ferrari to make the agreement public."
Finally, Todt was asked whether there will now always be doubts about the legality of Ferrari's 2019 engine, and he answered thoughtfully: "Absolutely. Absolutely."
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"We concluded that it was not in the interest of the sport to reach that level of litigation." Yes it was
If they were continuously cheating, take their points and dollars. If not, shut up. Sounds like Ferrari bullied the FIA. Where the hell is Liberty in all of this?
Jean Todt is right if they cannot proof that Ferrari used illegal means during former races it was no use to go to court and fight for maybe 12 to 16 month without any proof what they did or not did. Why is everybody complaining about Toth's words that that was not in the interest of the spos ? He is totally right about that so please stop the negative reactions towards Toth or FIA. If the social media had posted it directly the way it happend there was never problem.! Social media and journalist should be penalized by creating this false ideas. I am NO fan of Toth and not of Ferrari but IF they did something wrong before it is a shame they where not caught, end of story.
When has it ever changed over the past 50 years...Talk is cheap
When McLaren does something wrong it cost them $100,000 000 when The Big F does something underhanded $000, and it is never reported.
But what do you expect, just ask yourself where Mr Todt worked for so many years... impartial?
Blah blah blah...
Its just arguing while we miss racing!
Quit whining like wankers and lets race!
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