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Max Mosley, the former FIA president and a controversial figure for a variety of reasons for much of his life, died today at the age of 81.
Mosley was President of the FIA from 1993 to 2009. Jean Todt has been President of the organization since 2009. Todt tweeted about Mosley’s legacy on Twitter today.
“Deeply saddened by the death of Max Mosley.” Todt tweeted. “He was an important figure in @F1 & Motorsport. As @FIA President he made a strong contribution to improving safety on the track and on the road for 16 years. He is recognized by the entire FIA community. Our thoughts and prayers are contributing him family. “
Bernie Ecclestone, left, and Max Mosely in 2006
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The second son of British politician Sir Oswald Mosley and Diana Mitford, one of the famous Mitford Girls, Mosley spent his childhood in Ireland before being sent to school in France and later in Germany. As a very smart man like his father, he should probably get into politics, but his father’s adventures in the 1930s as leader of the British Union of Fascists meant the name Mosley was election poison and he could never drown the path. After studying at Oxford, he completed his studies in physics in 1961. He then began to read law at the Grays Inn in London and was admitted to the bar in 1964.
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After a visit to Silverstone in the early 1960s caught his attention, Mosley soon became involved in motor racing. He mainly drove at club events, but was able to buy a Formula 2 car in 1968 and founded the London Racing Team with Chris Lambert. Max drove at the F2 event in Hockenheim, where Jim Clark was killed. After Lambert was killed in an accident with Clay Regazzoni in Zandvoort in August of the same year, Mosley Piers Courages became a teammate in Frank Williams’ F2 team.
Mosley knew he wasn’t good enough to compete in Formula 1 and retired as a driver in 1969. He founded March Engineering with Robin Herd, Alan Rees and Graham Coaker. The company was a huge success as a racing car manufacturing company, and March Cars won many championships, although it never really realized its potential in Formula 1. Jackie Stewart drove to victory in the 1970 Spanish GP, but at the March Racing factory the team only won twice, in 1975 with Vittorio Brambilla in Austria and in 1976 with Ronnie Peterson in Monza.
Mosley became increasingly involved in the politics of sport in the league with Bernie Ecclestone. After March retired from F1 in late 1977, Mosley left the company and became legal advisor to FOCA (Formula 1 Constructors Association) and a member of the FISA F1 Commission.
Mosley played a leading role in the FISA-FOCA war between F1 and the 1980-82 member teams that led to the Concorde Accord of which he was the architect. After the political struggles were over, Mosley took three years out of the sport before becoming president of the FIA’s Manufacturers’ Committee in 1986.
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At the same time, he helped found Simtek Research in 1989, although he sold his stake in the company when he became president of FISA (the FIA’s sports subsidiary) in 1991, ousting Jean-Marie Balestre by 43 votes to 29. Mosley announced that he would resign after one year so that he could be judged on his merits, but 12 months later he was re-elected for a four-year term. He then merged the FIA and FISA and became President of the FIA in October 1993 for a period of four years. He was re-elected in October 1997 and again in 2001 and 2005.
Mosley has achieved tremendous achievement when it comes to road safety, especially with the Euro-NCAP program. In Formula 1, he led the safety revolution after Ayrton Senna’s death in 1994. His political skills were badly needed as FIA president, but he also had weaknesses, one of which was a great dislike for McLaren’s Ron Dennis. Maybe because Dennis was a former mechanic who was more successful in Formula One than Mosley had ever been. He also lost patience with F1 teams and began to behave in ways that often bordered on dictatorial, steamy opposition and even criticism.
In the end, many of Mosley’s achievements in motorsport and safety were overshadowed by a sex scandal that surfaced on a tabloid. Mosley claimed to have breached privacy and launched a legal campaign to prevent this from happening again. His case resulted in a 2008 court victory and the shutdown of World News, as well as a long-running battle against media tycoon Rupert Murdoch.
After winning his privacy lawsuit and leaving his position with the FIA, Mosley largely withdrew from public life. He is survived by his wife and a son and was deceased by another son.
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