Stewart: Eight weeks is too long to wait

Sir Jackie Stewart has urged the FIA to bring forward the meeting to decide Max Mosley's fate, fearing the damage that could be done during the eight-week wait.

The FIA announced on Wednesday that Mosley would face an Extraordinary General Assembly on June 3 during which a vote of confidence will be taken as to whether the beleagured President will remain in office.

"The meeting will be held on June 3, 2008, in Paris," a FIA statement said. "The General Assembly will include a vote of confidence by secret ballot."

However, Stewart, who has heavily criticised Mosley since the scandal broke two weeks ago, reckons waiting eight weeks for the ballot could prove detrimental to F1.

"For the reputation of the sport, it's too far away, unrealistic," the triple F1 World Champion told PA Sport.

"It means until it happens there will be destabilising influences with regard to the reputation of the FIA and associated bodies.

"That includes not only Formula One, but all the motoring clubs and organisations.

"When you hear the Americans, Germans, Dutch, Israelis, along with BMW, Mercedes, Honda and Toyota, having their say, it is difficult for me to see how the reputation of the FIA is being upheld.

"Instead of him standing down to respect the reputation of the various entities, he has decided to go to his own family and ask for forgiveness, which in itself is unusual.

"He is being very blind to the realism of the act in which he was involved."

Mosley, though, maintains he's "done nothing wrong," adding that he acts he engaged in were "harmless and completely legal."