The former president of the FIA Max mosley has died at 81 years of age, according to the ‘Daily Mail’ and later confirmed one of his right hands and great ally Bernie ecclestone. The lawyer had been out of public life for some time, and had retired to enjoy his last years after leaving office in 2009 to be replaced by Jean Todt at the head of the International Automobile Federation.
Oswald Mosley is portrayed as one of the characters in the fifth season of the series ‘Peaky Blinders’
Youngest child of Sir Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists, he soon made a career in the legal world until he entered motorsport, first as a Formula 2 driver and then from the paddock as a lawyer, advisor and eventually a team owner, March, in the late 60s. It was there that he met Ecclestone, with whom he would form a fearsome tandem for years to come.
After forming with the tycoon a kind of partnership of interests (Mosley was Ecclestone’s lawyer, officially or unofficially, all his life) he began to climb in the world of Formula 1 politics, first as a representative of the teams in the AF1 Builders Association (FOCA, a sort of syndicate of teams) and later on the opposite side as president of the FIA. Along the way, he and Ecclestone boosted the value of F1’s commercial operating rights into a multi-billion dollar industry.
After achieving the signing of the Pact of Concord in 1982 (which for years was the agreement by which the teams shared the profits of the competition), he retired for a few years from motor racing to enter politics for the Conservative Party. It did not last more than four years and in 1986 he returned to the world of competition, this time to move from the FOCA to the FISA (precedent of the current FIA) which was directed by the no less controversial Jean-Marie Ballestre, which ended up naming him his dolphin.
In 1993 he took over the presidency of the FIA, a position he held until 2009.
The Fall of Mosley: The Story of the Nazi Sadomasochistic Orgy
Mosley and Ecclestone formed a partnership in which the former ensured that the latter maintained absolute control of Formula 1, taking on whoever was needed.
However, for many years he was not without detractors. Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, former president of Ferrari, He made several attempts to organize a parallel championship, but he found the front wall of Mosley and especially the income that Ecclestone had well tied. The balance of power shifted in 2007, the year of the famous McLaren-Ferrari spy case.
Ron Dennis went from being an ally to an avowed enemy of Mosley, whom he directly accused of trying to destroy McLaren with the $ 100 million fine, still today the largest in the history of the sport. The movement began behind the scenes, which ended in the most unexpected way, along with other actors.
For years they were plotting how to kick him out, although it was not until 2008 that the anti-Mosley front found its final ally: Flavio Briatore. The decision to expel the Italian for life (later it was not) due to the ‘crashgate’ case (when he forced Nelsinho Piquet to crash at the Singapore GP to enable Fernando Alonso’s victory) came a few months before the newspaper ‘News of the World’ published images of Max Mosley in a sadomasochistic orgy in which everyone was disguised in Nazi military clothing.
The family past of the still president of the FIA caused a major scandal in Great Britain, and the pressure was such that he decided that he was not going to run for a new position. After agreeing with Jean Todt that he would be his successor, he left office.
During his last years he devoted himself to judicially battle against the tabloid press, both British and foreign, with the intention of ensuring that privacy was always respected, in any circumstance and by any person. He even took his case to the European Court of Human Rights. Along the way, they went from more militant political conservatism to Labor, including highly controversial donations to the highest levels.