The Max Mosely Controversy

April 1, 2008

Few days back, Max Mosely appeared in th headlines of News of the World tabloid. Though we all know how much he enjoys being in the limelight, but this time it was for all the wrong reasons [wrong for Mosely]. As per the tabloid Mosely was secretly filmed in a sick Nazi orgy with 5 hookers.

Now after many days of silence, Mosely has finally spoken. He had sent following letter to all presidents of the national FIA clubs, all members of the FIA Senate, the World Motor Sport Council and the World Council for Mobility and the Automobile:

From information provided to me by an impeccable high-level source close to the UK police and security services, I understand that over the last 2 weeks or so, a covert investigation of my private life and background has been undertaken by a group specialising in such things, for reasons and clients as yet unknown. I have had similar but less well-sourced information from France

Regrettably you are now familiar with the results of this covert investigation and I am very sorry if this has embarrassed you or the club. Not content with publicising highly personal and private activities, which are, to say the least, embarrassing, a British tabloid newspaper published the story with the claim that there was some sort of Nazi connotation to the matter. This is entirely false.

It is against the law in most countries to publish details of a person’s private life without good reason. The publications by The News of the World are a wholly unwarranted invasion of my privacy and I intend to issue legal proceedings against the Newspaper in the UK and other jurisdictions.

I have received a very large number of messages of sympathy and support from those within the FIA and the motor sport and motoring communities generally, suggesting that my private life is not relevant to my work and that I should continue in my role. I am grateful and with your support I intend to follow this advice. I shall now devote some time to those responsible for putting this into the public domain but above all I need to repair the damage to my immediate family who are the innocent and unsuspecting victims of this deliberate and calculated personal attack. You can, however be certain that I will not allow any of this to impede my commitment to the work of the FIA.”

Yours sincerely,
Max Mosley
FIA President

After reading the letter, one thing that’s for certain is that the person in the videos & images is in fact Mosely himself, because he has only refuted the Nazi allegation in his letter.

Some of us might applaud him silently for playing around with 5 hookers at the age of 67, but the question that really stands is will this have any effect on the chances of his re-election ? It is well known that many people in the F1 paddock wants him to leave after his current tenure ends so the current controversy will only help them in being more aggressive going forward.