Mosley beats the News of the World
Into submission. Quite right too. The News of the World is a nasty rag with no respect for peoples privacy. It deserves a sharp slap on the wrist. We're already the most watched country in the world, so the last thing anybody wants is a tabloid poking their nose in as well, trying to make a story out of someone's private life.
However, I have a few reservations about Max's intention to carry on as president of the FIA. He has put the nose out of a lot of powerful people in motorsport (and public life in general) over this affair. His arrogance and dictatorial manner in the way that he has dealt with things has not gone down well. He is not welcome in Bahrain, the Australian Prime Minister refuses to meet with him and the American Automobile Association is considering withdrawing it's membership of the FIA. Jackie Stewart is right when he says that if he was a chairman or CEO of a large private company, he'd have gone months ago.
Mosley is obviously a strong man who is not willing to have his name dragged through the dirt by a tabloid rag. Plus, what he does in his own time is entirely up to him, as long as it's legal! But the implications of the way he spends that leisure time, the court case and how they reflect back on the FIA mean that it is difficult for him to justify continuing in the job.
