Todt Offers To Quit.
Ferrari boss Jean Todt has tendered his resignation to company president Luca di Montezemolo, blaming himself for failing to land the world title for the team.
Todt believes that he is solely to blame for the mistakes which cost the Scuderia points at the Nurburgring and which saw both Eddie Irvine and Michael Schumacher disqualified from the Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday. Irvine's exclusion saw him drop twelve points behind McLaren's Mika Hakkinen - who replaced the Irishman as winner at Sepang - in the championship chase, with just ten on offer at the final round.
Ferrari boss Jean Todt has tendered his resignation to company president Luca di Montezemolo, blaming himself for failing to land the world title for the team.
Todt believes that he is solely to blame for the mistakes which cost the Scuderia points at the Nurburgring and which saw both Eddie Irvine and Michael Schumacher disqualified from the Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday. Irvine's exclusion saw him drop twelve points behind McLaren's Mika Hakkinen - who replaced the Irishman as winner at Sepang - in the championship chase, with just ten on offer at the final round.
"I am the one, and only one, responsible for this negligence," Todt told the Italian press, "We admit the negligence, but insist we were acting in good faith, without the will to cheat. We had no advantage in performance, and will demonstrate this to the FIA [at its Court of Appeal on Friday]."
di Montezemolo has apparently refused to countenance Todt's resignation offer, instead telling the Frenchman to concentrate on the team's preparations for the Japanese Grand Prix in two weeks' time.
