FIA Presidency hopeful Jean Todt has issued his manifesto, the Frenchman aiming for... "Innovation, Excellence and Teamwork".

"Last month I announced my candidacy and introduced my leadership team for this year's FIA Presidential election. Since then we have focused on developing our policy priorities and have met as a team to finalise the programme we wish to implement.

"Today we publish our Election Agenda which sets out our policy goals to ensure that the FIA further enhances its role as the world's leading independent organisation promoting mobility and motor sport.

"We have been greatly encouraged in our work by the strong messages of support we have received from across the world. We have established an important dialogue with the FIA membership and other stakeholders in the motor sport and mobility sectors. We are convinced that our team and our policies give the FIA the opportunity to refresh its structures, and rededicate itself to serving its members.

"Above all we need team work and co-operation. The FIA is a highly complex organisation combining roles as both the world's motor sport governing body and global mobility alliance. To realise its full potential it is clear to us that the FIA must work together as a team, with its leadership and World Councils collaborating closely with its secretariat, its global club membership and its sister organisations.

"We are committed to an exciting agenda for change that builds on the FIA's achievements and the determination and ability of its membership. With the commitment and co-operation of each of our member clubs we can strengthen our unique international alliance in the best interests of global mobility and motor sport."

Nick Craw, candidate for the Presidency of the FIA Senate said, "The FIA is unique in the world as a non profit, independent association that combines the role of a major sports governing body with the voice of the motoring public. Both the sporting and the mobility sides of the FIA share common values supporting fairness for consumers and competitors, for safety and sustainability on road and track, and the right to enjoy freedom that the automobile can provide.

"To meet the motoring and motor sport challenges ahead we recognise that the FIA must continue to adapt and change. Teamwork on a global scale requires us to make our governance system more efficient and representative. That is why one of our policy priorities will be to conduct a comprehensive review of the FIA statutes and structure fully involving the leadership, World Councils and membership in the process."

Brian Gibbons, candidate for FIA Deputy President (Mobility), said, "With over 100 million members the FIA's mobility clubs are the largest mobility consumer network in the world. They provide vital assistance and tourism services to their members and also defend the interests of motorists and their freedom of mobility. As the world's motoring population more than doubles in the decades ahead the FIA must help its clubs to remain at the forefront of innovative motoring services and effective public policy.

"Through advocacy campaigns such as Make Roads Safe and Make Cars Green the FIA has developed an important platform to encourage safer and more sustainable mobility. Through new policy initiatives developed by a strengthened Mobility secretariat and with the broad support and participation of our membership, we have never been better placed to be the global voice of the world's motorists."

Over the next four years our policy priorities for mobility will include:

Enhancing the FIA's Public Policy and Advocacy role,

Increasing the value clubs receive from their FIA membership,

Creating greater opportunities for clubs to share experience, knowledge and opportunities,

Placing a greater focus on the tourism activities of clubs and assisting clubs play an even greater role as consumer advocates for their members, and

Strengthening regional identity and participation.

Graham Stoker, candidate for FIA Deputy President (Sport), said, "The first duty of the leadership of the FIA is to act as the custodian of its role as the independent world governing body of motor sport. It is vital also that we redouble our efforts to make our sport as safe as possible and as environmentally and economically sustainable.