Former FIA boss Max Mosley is dead

His family confirmed media reports to this effect on Monday evening. “He was like a brother to me,” his long-time companion Bernie Ecclestone told the BBC. Mosley was himself a racing driver (up to Formula 2) and a lawyer before he headed the FIA from 1993. In this role, together with Ecclestone, he played a key role in shaping Formula 1. Mosley introduced important reforms to improve safety, especially after the fatal accidents of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger in Imola in 1994. He also tried for years to implement what was only possible from the The current 2021 season is a reality: a budget cap for the Formula 1 teams. Turned Formula 1 into a billion-dollar business The studied physicist and lawyer was always a controversial figure. As the son of Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Fascist Party, he had decided against a political career. Instead, he became Ecclestone's most important advisor and later his partner in transforming Formula 1 into a global billion-dollar business. “Would I have been able to do all this without Max? Probably not,” Ecclestone once said of Mosley. This has brought about many good things, “not only in motorsport, but also in the automotive industry. “Max Mosley made sure the cars were built safer.” In 2009, the Briton was replaced at the head of the organization by the Frenchman Jean Todt. Sex affair damages reputation “Very saddened by the death of Max Mosley. He was a significant figure in Formula 1 and motorsport,” Todt wrote on social media. The racing series said: “Everyone in Formula 1 is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Max Mosley.” It was said that his legacy, especially in matters of security, would “last for generations”. However, Mosley's reputation was damaged by a sex affair. In 2008, the British newspaper “News of the World” published illegally taken pictures of a lavish party with the FIA boss. In a legal dispute, Mosley brought the tabloid to its knees and then continued his fight for the right to privacy on an international level. It was only in 2015 that Mosley settled his legal dispute with the search engine operator Google, which he wanted to force to no longer display the sex video and images from it.

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Former FIA boss Max Mosley is dead

Max Mosley, the former and long-standing president of the world motorsport association FIA, has succumbed to cancer at the age of 81.

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