Max Mosley - the shame of F1

So Max Mosley has survived a vote of no confidence and, despite a predilection for prostitutes and some unsavoury role playing while with them, he continues to be in charge of Formula One.

Mosley seems to genuinely believe that he has done nothing wrong and the (all-male) people that could have removed him agree. Clearly, having shredded morals is no obstacle to being the public support. Even Bernie Ecclestone realised that Mosley’s position had become an embarrassment.

But Oswald’s son continues. He won’t be able to attend some races because those staging them are appalled by his antics and the message it sends out. Hopefully, some of the advertisers who pay through the nose for the tiniest branding on the cars will say enough is enough. Only then might the self-interested idiots that run the sport sit up and take notice.

Anyhow, make your own mind up.

Herr … sorry, Hair Mosley

At least we can count on Max Mosley’s Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile to stand ever-ready to apply the riding crop of stern discipline to the quivering buttocks of slacking standards. Max’s minions have severely reprimanded the French world rallying champion Sébastien Loeb for the unpardonable sin of not having shaved or combed his disgracefully “tousled hair” before stepping on to the winners’ podium after the Mexican rally. Driving for three days in searing heat on treacherous mountain roads was no excuse for looking so “undignified and disheveled”. (The Guardian)

But good old Mosley sees nothing wrong with a bit of slap and right-wing tickle with prostitutes. It has to be assumed while he was being … er … entrapped, not a (pubic) hair was out of place.

Mosley will pay for peccadilloes

Anyone who has crossed Max Mosley will be unsurprised that he refuses to be hounded out of office by lurid News of the World headlines regarding his sexual peccadilloes.

Mosley will battle on, but his promise to pay damages he wins from suing the newspaper to an FIA charity smack of bravado, nay bullshit. He does not - cannot – deny that he was in the company of five prostitutes but, given his father’s political history, it’s the claims of Nazi sex games that really rankles.

But Mosley’s dictatorial approach to F1 has made him many enemies and now they sense he is wounded they are circulating and calling for his resignation. A motion of no confidence has been tabled for June 1, but the feeling is that he might find his position untenable before then.

Mosley has until now been backed by his old friend Bernie Ecclestone, but the diminutive one is a businessman, and he is reportedly realizing that Mosley is tarnishing the image of the sport. That Bernie won’t allow … and that could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.