Jordan: Mosley will stand down

Eddie Jordan has predicted that Max Mosley will resign as FIA President even after he survived a vote of no confidence during Tuesday's General Assembly meeting in Paris.

The ruling means that Mosley can stay on in his position until his term of office runs out in October 2009, but Jordan expects Mosley to leave before then.

"I'm quite certain he will stand down before the end of the year," the former F1 team boss told BBC Radio Five Live. "As much as I like Max for what he did for safety, unfortunately this is no longer a private affair. It has become public and I think he will now stand down on his own terms."

Nor did Jordan regard Mosley's apparent success in Paris as an overwhelming mandate to continue.

"I'm not surprised that he has won, Max is a very clever man and he would not have called this meeting if he thought he couldn't win, but I'm surprised that there was so much opposition to him. He will be very disappointed by that."