India, Oct. 10 -- A good man at the helm.
It's been on the cards for some time that Formula 1 Chairman and CEO Chase Carey would stand down as soon as the commercial agreements for the future were signed. And so the recent months have seen Liberty Media boss Greg Maffei quietly trying to find a suitable replacement.
Maffei was originally keen to get Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff, and last year the Austrian even made a couple of visits to Liberty's headquarters in Englewood, a suburb of Denver in Colorado, but there was a hitch. You see, since at least 2009, there's been a clause in the F1 commercial agreements stating that Ferrari (or rather 'The Longest Standing Team') must give written consent for the appointment of a new CEO for F1 if th...