Life and Career
Todt was born in Pierrefort, a southern Cantal village in the Auvergne region of France, the son of a country doctor.
Todt was always hugely enthusiastic about cars and motor racing. Even while he was graduating from the École des Dirigeants et Créateurs d'Entreprise (EDC) business school in Paris, he would devote his spare time to tuning cars with a group of friends at the Madeleine garage in Asnières near Paris.
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