As expected, former Ferrari man Jean Todt has been elected as the new President of the Sport’s Governing Body, the FIA, here in Paris this afternoon, His term will run for four consecutive years and the FIA membership voted as follows:

For Jean Todt: 135
For Ari Vatanen: 49
Abstentions/invalid votes: 12

Voting in the General Assembly was made by secret ballot. The votes were counted in private by the FIA legal department, under the supervision of scrutineers proposed by the two presidential candidates and designated by the General Assembly. The entire voting procedure was supervised by an external Huissier de Justice (French state-appointed public witness).