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Max Mosley dominated Formula One and waged war on the tabloid press We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss May 26, 2021 — 10.16am Normal text size Advertisement Max Mosley, the former president of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), who has died aged 81, was a driving force behind the global success of Formula One; his position began to look precarious when, at the end of March 2008, the News of the World published a double-page spread, with video on its website, showing him as an active participant in a sado-masochistic o...

The former motorsport executive, whose family had ties to the Nazis, died after a battle with cancer. Mosley was active as an advocate for tougher press regulation following a tabloid exposé of his sex life.

25 May, 2021 While modern Formula 1 may not know much about Max Mosley, the older generation most certainly do as does Sir Frank Williams, a man who owes a great deal to the late former FIA President. Mosley. who passed away this week, was always a controversial figure, but his love and passion for motorsport was pure. Fittingly Sir Frank remembers Mosley with fondness and respect. He wrote the following tribute: “It is with great sadness that I reflect on the passing of Max Mosley, aged 81. Max had a profound impact on the wider world of motorsport, but on a personal level played an integr...

Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP LONDON — Max Mosley, who shook off the stigma of his family’s links to fascism to become international motorsport’s top administrator and later made a stand as a privacy campaigner in response to tabloid stories about his sex life, has died. He was 81. Friend Bernie Ecclestone, the former F1 chief executive, said Monday that Mosley died the previous evening. He did not disclose the cause of death. “He was like family to me. We were like brothers. I am pleased in a way because he suffered for too long,” Ecclestone said. As president of motorsport’s governing ...

Ruthless Formula One supremo who weathered scandal and transformed motor sport into a global spectacle