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{{Short description|Race car driver and FICA President (1940–2021)}}
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| name                = Max Mosley
| image               = Max Mosley 1969 (Portrait).jpg
| caption             = Mosley in 1969
| office              = President of the [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile]]
| term_start          = 23 October 1993
| term_end            = 23 October 2009
| predecessor         = [[Jean-Marie Balestre]]
| successor           = [[Jean Todt]]
| office2      = President of the [[Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile]]
| term_start2  = 1991
| term_end2    = 1993
| predecessor2 = [[Jean-Marie Balestre]]
| successor2   = Position abolished 
| birth_date          = {{birth date|df=y|1940|4|13}}
| birth_place         = [[London]], England
| death_date          = {{death date and age|2021|5|23|1940|4|13|df=y}}
| death_place         = London, England
| residence           = [[Monaco]]
| parents             = {{plainlist|
* [[Oswald Mosley|Sir Oswald Mosley]]
* [[Diana Mitford]]
}}
| spouse              = {{marriage|Jean Taylor|1960}}
| children            = 2
| relatives           = {{plainlist|
* [[Nicholas Mosley|Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale]] (paternal half-brother)
* [[Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne]] (maternal half-brother)
* [[Desmond Guinness]] (maternal half-brother)
}}
| alma_mater          = [[Christ Church, Oxford]]
| birth_name          = Max Rufus Mosley
}}

'''Max Rufus Mosley''' (13 April 1940 – 23 May 2021) was a British businessman, lawyer and [[racing driver]]. He served as president of the [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile]] (FIA), the [[Sport governing body|governing body]] for [[Formula One]].

A [[barrister]] and amateur racing driver, Mosley was a founder and co-owner of [[March Engineering]],<ref name="caranddriver">{{Cite web|url=https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a36524708/formula-1-racing-max-mosley-obituary/|title=Former FIA President Max Mosley Dies at 81|date=25 May 2021}}</ref> a racing car constructor and Formula One racing team. He dealt with legal and commercial matters for the company between 1969 and 1977 and became its representative at the [[Formula One Constructors' Association]] (FOCA), the body that represents Formula One constructors. Together with [[Bernie Ecclestone]], Mosley represented FOCA at the FIA and in its dealings with race organisers. In 1978, he became the official legal adviser to FOCA. In this role, Mosley and Marco Piccinini negotiated the first version of the [[Concorde Agreement]], which settled [[FISA–FOCA war|a long-standing dispute]] between FOCA and the [[Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile]] (FISA), a commission of the FIA and the then governing body of Formula One. Mosley was elected president of FISA in 1991 and became president of the FIA, FISA's parent body, in 1993. Mosley identified his major achievement as FIA President as the promotion of the [[Euro NCAP|European New Car Assessment Programme]] (Euro NCAP or Encap).<ref name="caranddriver"/> He also promoted increased safety and the use of green technologies in motor racing. In 2008, stories about his sex life appeared in the British press, along with allegations regarding Nazi connotations. Mosley successfully sued the newspaper that published the allegations and maintained his position as FIA president. He stood down at the end of his term in 2009 and was replaced by his preferred successor, [[Jean Todt]].

Mosley was the youngest son of [[Sir Oswald Mosley]], former leader of the [[British Union of Fascists]],  and [[Diana Mitford]].<ref name="caranddriver"/> He was educated in France, Germany, and Britain before attending university at [[Christ Church, Oxford]], where he graduated with a degree in physics. He then changed to law and was [[called to the bar]] in 1964. In his teens and early twenties, Mosley was involved with his father's post-war political party, the [[Union Movement]] (UM). He commented that the association of his surname with fascism stopped him from developing his interest in politics further, although he briefly worked for the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] in the early 1980s, and was a donor to the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] from the [[New Labour]] era until 2018.

Mosley was the subject of Michael Shevloff's 2020 biographical documentary ''Mosley''.<ref>{{cite news |title=New Mosley film includes segments he "would've cut" |publisher=Motorsport Network |access-date=24 January 2020 |url=https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/mosley-documentary-release-date-revealing/4676225/?nrt=54 }}</ref> He died at the age of 81 on 23 May 2021.<ref name="rip"/> An inquest confirmed his death as suicide following a diagnosis of terminal cancer.<ref name="BBC">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-60919994|title=Former F1 boss Max Mosley shot himself after terminal cancer diagnosis|work=BBC News|date=29 March 2022|access-date=29 March 2022}}</ref>

==Family and early life==
Max Mosley was born on 13 April 1940<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/motor-racing/max-mosley-mosley-the-grand-machinator-of-formula-one-96759.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220512/http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/motor-racing/max-mosley-mosley-the-grand-machinator-of-formula-one-96759.html |archive-date=12 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Max Mosley: Mosley the grand machinator of Formula One|last=Viner|first=Brian|date=19 July 2003|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=10 April 2020}}</ref> in London, in the early years of the [[Second World War]]. His father was Sir [[Oswald Mosley]], leader of the [[British Union of Fascists]] (BUF), and his mother was [[Diana Mitford]], one of the [[Mitford family#Mitford sisters|Mitford sisters]].<ref name="Horwell">{{cite news|last=Horwell|first=Veronica|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/aug/14/guardianobituaries.thefarright|title=Obituary Diana Mosley|page=1|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=14 August 2003|access-date=28 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201042551/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/aug/14/guardianobituaries.thefarright|archive-date=1 December 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> In addition to his older full-brother Alexander, Mosley had five older half-siblings. On his father's side, they included the future novelist [[Nicholas Mosley|Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale]] (1923–2017).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Trewin |first1=Ion |title=Nicholas Mosley obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/01/nicholas-mosley-obituary |access-date=22 December 2020 |work=The Guardian Online |date=1 March 2017}}</ref> On his mother's side they were the merchant banker [[Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne]] (born 1930), and the Irish preservationist [[Desmond Guinness]] (1931–2020).<ref>Jones (2004), pp. 23, 71, 75.</ref> He was a nephew of [[Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire]], and first cousin of [[Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire]].  He was also third cousin of [[Winston Churchill (1940–2010)|Winston Churchill]] MP, the grandson of the British prime minister, and fifth cousin of [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother]].<ref name="Horwell" />

A month after Max Mosley's birth, his father, who had campaigned for a negotiated peace between the British Empire and [[Nazi Germany]], was [[Internment|interned]] by the incoming Churchill government under [[Defence Regulation 18B]], along with other active fascists in Britain. His mother was imprisoned a month later.<ref name=Telegraph>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1YourView&xml=/sport/2007/11/02/smgars102.xml|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|title=Max Mosley rides out the storm|access-date=24 November 2007|first=Kevin|last=Garside|date=2 November 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080412121709/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1YourView&xml=%2Fsport%2F2007%2F11%2F02%2Fsmgars102.xml|archive-date=12 April 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> Max and his brother Alexander were not included in their parents' internment and, as a result, were separated from them for the first few years of their lives. In December 1940, [[Winston Churchill]] asked the [[Home Secretary]] [[Herbert Morrison]] to ensure Lady Mosley was able to see Max regularly.<ref name=grandprix.com>{{cite web|url=http://www.grandprix.com/gt/gt00107.html|title=Max's finest hour and other stories|access-date=13 January 2008|date=6 November 1997|first=Joe|last=Saward|publisher=GrandPrix.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071231163330/http://www.grandprix.com/gt/gt00107.html|archive-date=31 December 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>Mosley, N. (1983), p. 201.</ref>

Sir Oswald and Lady Mosley were released from detention at [[Holloway (HM Prison)|HMP Holloway]] on 16 November 1943, provoking widespread public protests.<ref name="Horwell"/> Their children were refused entry to several schools, due to a combination of their wildness and their parents' reputation, and were initially tutored at home instead.<ref>Jones (2004), pp. 141–143</ref> The family moved to a succession of [[country house]]s in England. Mosley's older half-brother [[Nicholas Mosley|Nicholas]] described the family, including Sir Oswald's children from his first marriage, spending the summer of 1945 getting the harvest in and shooting at Crowood Farm, near [[Ramsbury]], Wiltshire.<!--http://www.worldcat.org/title/proceedings-and-transactions-of-the-royal-society-of-canada-deliberations-et-memoires-de-la-societe-royale-du-canada/oclc/2247486 if location needs ref--><ref>Mosley, N. (1983), pp. 278–281.</ref> 
At the age of 13, Mosley was sent to [[Traunreut|Stein an der Traun]] in Germany for two years, where he learned to speak fluent German.<ref name=Telegraph /> On his return to England, he spent a year at [[Millfield]], an independent boarding school in [[Somerset]], after which he continued his education in London for two years. He attended [[Christ Church, Oxford]], graduating with a degree in physics in 1961. During his time there, he was secretary of the [[Oxford Union]] where his father spoke on two occasions, once with [[Jeremy Thorpe]] on the other side. In 1960, Mosley introduced his father to [[Robert Skidelsky]], one of Mosley's contemporaries at the university, later a biographer of his father.<ref>Dorril (2006), pp. 622–623.</ref> Rejecting an early ambition to work as a physicist after "establishing that there was no money in it",<ref name=AutoMotorundSport200126>{{cite journal| title =Im Profil: FIA-Praesident Max Moseley als Redaktionsgast von Auto Motor und Sport ueber die naechste Amtszeit und die Moeglichkeiten, die Formel 1 langsamer zu machen...| series = 2001| journal=[[Auto, Motor und Sport]]| volume = Heft 26| pages = Seite 168–172|date = 12 December 2001}}</ref> Mosley studied law at [[Gray's Inn]] in London and qualified as a [[barrister]] in 1964. After a pupillage with [[Maurice Drake]], he specialised in patent and trademark law.<ref name=Telegraph/> From 1961 to 1964, Mosley was a member of the [[Territorial Army (United Kingdom)|Territorial Army]], [[Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)|Parachute Regiment]] ([[44th Parachute Brigade (V)|44th Independent Parachute Brigade Group]]).<ref name=poacher />

In 1950, the Mosleys bought houses in [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]], and in [[Orsay]], near Paris. They spent the year moving around Europe, spending the spring in France and the autumn and winter in Ireland, where Mosley was keen on riding and hunting.<ref name="Dorril 2006 p.598">Dorril (2006), p. 598.</ref><ref>Jones (2004), pp. 149–150.</ref> His aunt [[Nancy Mitford]], in letters to [[Evelyn Waugh]], recalled Sir Oswald and his family cruising the Mediterranean Sea on the family yacht. On one such trip they visited Spain and were entertained by Sir Oswald's friend [[General Franco]].<ref name=face2face>{{cite news|url=http://atlasf1.autosport.com/2000/eur/okeefe.html|title=Max Mosley: Face to Face|access-date=24 November 2007|publisher=Atlas F1|first=Thomas|last=O'Keefe|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515020018/http://atlasf1.autosport.com/2000/eur/okeefe.html|archive-date=15 May 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

Mosley, like many Formula One drivers, lived in [[Monaco]]. On 9 June 1960, he was married at the [[Chelsea Register Office]] to Jean Taylor, the daughter of James Taylor, a policeman from [[Streatham]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cadwalladr |first1=Carole |title=Max Mosley: 'Fifty Shades of Grey? I've heard it's very vanilla' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jun/14/max-mosley-interview-fifty-shades-of-grey-news-of-the-world |access-date=22 December 2020 |work=The Guardian Online |date=14 June 2015}}</ref> In 1970, their first son, Alexander, was born, and in 1972 their second son, Patrick.<ref name=Persuader>{{cite web|url=http://www.fia.com/public/Paddock-magazine.pdf|publisher=The Paddock|access-date=16 March 2008|date=1 December 2007|title=The Persuader|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111085858/http://www.fia.com/public/Paddock-magazine.pdf|archive-date=11 January 2014}}</ref> On 5 May 2009, Alexander, a [[restaurateur]], was found at his [[Notting Hill]] home by his cleaner. He had died of drug abuse at the age of 39. An inquest was held on 10 June 2009, the Westminster coroner declaring that his death was due to [[Opioid overdose|non-dependent drug abuse]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 June 2009 |title=Mosley son died of drug abuse |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mosley-son-died-of-drug-abuse-1701809.html |access-date=2 February 2024 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news/detail/090610160916.shtml |title=ESPN F1 &#124; Formula 1 news and live F1 coverage |publisher=En.f1-live.com |access-date=4 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090612205452/http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news/detail/090610160916.shtml |archive-date=12 June 2009 |url-status=live  }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8092976.stm | publisher=BBC News | title=Mosley's son died of drug abuse | date=10 June 2009 | access-date=12 May 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804174439/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8092976.stm | archive-date=4 August 2017 | url-status=live | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

==Politics==
From their teens to early twenties, Mosley and his brother were involved with their father's post-war party, the [[far-right]] [[Union Movement]] (UM), which advocated [[European nationalism]]. Trevor Grundy, a central figure in the UM's Youth Movement, writes of the 16-year-old Mosley painting the [[flash and circle]] symbol on walls in London on the night of the [[Soviet Union]]'s [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956|invasion of Hungary]] (4 November 1956).<ref>Grundy (1999), pp. 93–94.</ref> The flash and circle was used by both the UM and the pre-war BUF. He also says Mosley organised a couple of large parties as a way "to get in with lively, ordinary, normal young people, girls as well as boys, and attract them to the Movement by showing that we were like them and didn't go on about Hitler and Mussolini, Franco and British Fascism all the time".<ref>Grundy (1999), pp. 129–130.</ref> Mosley met his future wife Jean at such a party. Mosley and Alexander were photographed posing as [[Teddy Boys]] in Notting Hill during the [[1958 Notting Hill race riots|1958 race riots]] between Afro-Caribbeans and local white gangs. The following year, they [[canvassing|canvassed]] for their father when he ran as a Union Movement candidate for the nearby [[Kensington North (UK Parliament constituency)|Kensington North]] seat in the [[1959 United Kingdom general election|1959 general election]].<ref name="Observer" />

Mosley rarely discussed his early political involvement with his father. When his father Oswald died, the London ''[[Daily Mail]]'' described him as a "much maligned and much misunderstood political giant of his era". Certainly, his father's political presence affected his early years, but Mosley reflected on this time, "I was born into this rather strange family and then at a certain point you get away from that." While he distanced himself from this period of his life, the "misunderstanding has remained and today...he carries that weight on his shoulders."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/node/1905188|title=Sins of the father|date=8 February 2011|work=New York Social Diary|access-date=1 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110212003250/http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/node/1905188|archive-date=12 February 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
In a [[1961 Manchester Moss Side by-election|1961 by-election]], Mosley was an [[election agent]] for the Union Movement, supporting Walter Hesketh, the UM's parliamentary candidate for [[Manchester Moss Side (UK Parliament constituency)|Manchester Moss Side]].<ref>'Union Movement choice for Moss Side' The Times, Tuesday, 26 September 1961; p. 7; Issue 55196; col A.</ref> The motor racing journalist [[Alan Henry]] described him as one of his father's "right-hand men" at the time of a violent incident in 1962, in which Sir Oswald was knocked down by a mob in London and saved from serious injury by his son's intervention.<ref>Henry (1992), p. 136.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/31/newsid_2776000/2776295.stm|title=1962: Violence flares at Mosley rally|access-date=10 December 2007|publisher=BBC News|date=31 July 1962|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307135911/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/31/newsid_2776000/2776295.stm|archive-date=7 March 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> As a result of his involvement in this fracas, Mosley was arrested and charged with threatening behaviour. He was later cleared at Old Street [[magistrates' court (England and Wales)|Magistrates' Court]] on the grounds that he was trying to protect his father.<ref name=poacher>{{cite web|url=http://www.grandprix.com/ft/ft00129.html|title=Poacher turned gamekeeper: Max Mosley|access-date=24 November 2007|date=1 September 1992|first=Joe|last=Saward|publisher=GrandPrix.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203212405/http://www.grandprix.com/ft/ft00129.html|archive-date=3 December 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> By 1964, when he began work as a [[barrister]], Mosley was no longer involved in politics.<ref name=Dorril1>Dorril (2006), p. 643.</ref>
  
In the early 1980s, Mosley attempted a political career, working for the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] and hoping to become a parliamentary candidate. [[Bernie Ecclestone]]'s biographer, Terry Lovell, wrote that he gave up this aspiration after being unimpressed by "the calibre of senior party officials".<ref name=Lovell82-86 /> He also believed his name would be a handicap and later said, "If I had a completely open choice in my life, I would have chosen party politics, but because of my name, that's impossible".<ref name=Dorril1/> By the late 1990s, he had become a donor to the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] and a supporter of the government of [[Tony Blair]].<ref name=Observer /> In 2018, Labour decided not to accept further donations from Mosley following accusations that he published a leaflet in the 1960s linking immigrants with disease. Mosley had already donated £500,000 to the office of deputy leader [[Tom Watson, Baron Watson of Wyre Forest|Tom Watson]].<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/feb/28/labour-says-it-will-stop-accepting-donations-from-max-mosley Labour says it will stop accepting donations from Max Mosley] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228183321/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/feb/28/labour-says-it-will-stop-accepting-donations-from-max-mosley |date=28 February 2018 }} ''[[The Guardian]]''</ref>

==Racing career==
While Mosley was at university, his wife was given tickets to a [[Auto racing|motor race]] at the [[Silverstone Circuit]]. The circuit is not far from [[Oxford]], and the couple went out of curiosity. Mosley was attracted by the sport, and once qualified as a barrister, began teaching law in the evenings to earn enough money to start racing cars himself.<ref>Lawrence (1989), p. 13.</ref> The sport's indifference to his background appealed to Mosley:
 
{{Blockquote|There was always a certain amount of trouble [being the son of Sir Oswald] until I came into motor racing. And in one of the first races I ever took part in there was a list of people when they put the practice times [...] and I heard somebody say, 'Mosley, Max Mosley, he must be some relation of Alf Mos[e]ley, the coachbuilder.' And I thought to myself, 'I've found a world where they don't know about Oswald Mosley.' And it has always been a bit like that in motor racing: nobody gives a damn.<ref name=face2face/>}}
 
At national level in the UK, Mosley competed in over 40 races in 1966 and 1967; he won 12 and set several class [[Fastest lap|lap records]]. In 1968, he formed the London Racing Team in partnership with driver Chris Lambert to compete in European [[Formula Two]], which at that time was the level of racing just below Formula One. Their cars were prepared by [[Frank Williams (Formula One)|Frank Williams]], later a Formula One team owner. It was a dangerous time to race: Mosley's first Formula Two race was the [[1968 Deutschland Trophäe]] at [[Hockenheimring|Hockenheim]] in which double world champion [[Jim Clark]] was killed,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.autosport-atlas.com/article.asp?id=27466|title=1968: The death of Jim Clark|access-date=30 January 2008|work=Autosport|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080415133037/http://www.autosport-atlas.com/article.asp?id=27466|archive-date=15 April 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> and within two years both of Mosley's 1968 teammates, [[Piers Courage]] and [[Chris Lambert (racing driver)|Chris Lambert]], were dead in racing accidents.{{efn|Both were killed in racing accidents at the [[Circuit Park Zandvoort|Zandvoort]] track; Lambert died in 1968 and [[Piers Courage]] was killed in 1970.<ref>Henry (2003), p. 93. Mosley's team mates Chris Lambert and [[Piers Courage]] were killed in separate accidents at the Zandvoort circuit.</ref>}} Mosley's best result that year was an eighth place at a non-championship race at [[Autodromo Nazionale Monza|Monza]].<ref name=Persuader /> Engine builder [[Brian Hart]] says that as a driver, Mosley "might not have been particularly quick, but he was a thinking driver. He kept out of trouble and generally used his head."<ref>Henry (2003), p. 93.</ref>

==March Engineering==
{{Main|March Engineering}}
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[[File:March 711 2007.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|right|Mosley's legal skills were frequently called on at [[March Engineering]]: one example was a contract dispute with [[Frank Costin]], designer of the novel aerodynamics of the March 711 seen here.<ref>Lawrence (1989), p. 57.</ref>]]
In 1969, after two large accidents due to breakages on his [[Team Lotus|Lotus]] car, Mosley decided that "it was evident that I wasn't going to be World Champion" and retired from driving.<ref name=face2face/> He was already working with [[Robin Herd]], [[Alan Rees (racing driver)|Alan Rees]], and [[Graham Coaker]] to establish the racing car manufacturer [[March Engineering]] where he handled legal and commercial matters. The name March is an acronym based on the initials of the founders; the 'M' stands for Mosley.<ref name=face2face/> Like the other founders, Mosley put in £2,500 of capital. His father told him that the company "would certainly go bankrupt, but it would be good training for something serious later on."<ref>Lawrence (1989), p. 18.</ref>
 
Mosley played a key role in publicising the new outfit. Although March had few resources and limited experience, the firm announced ambitious plans to enter Formula One, the pinnacle of single-seater racing, in 1970. The team had initially intended to enter a single car, but by the beginning of the season (partly due to deals made by Mosley), the number of March cars entered for their first Formula One race had risen to five. Two of these were run by March's own in-house [[wiktionary:factory team|works team]] and the rest by customer teams.<ref>Lawrence (1989), pp. 22–27.</ref> Mosley also negotiated [[sponsor (commercial)|sponsorship]] from tyre maker [[Firestone Tire and Rubber Company|Firestone]] and [[oil additive]] manufacturer [[STP (motor oil company)|STP]].<ref>Lawrence (1989), pp. 23, 30.</ref>
 
The new operation was initially successful. In Formula One, March cars won three of their first four races. One of these was a world championship race, the [[1970 Spanish Grand Prix]], won by reigning world champion [[Jackie Stewart]] in a customer car run by [[Tyrrell Racing]]. As a result, March finished third in the 1970 [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championship]]. The factory also sold 40 cars to customers in various lower formulae. Despite these successes, the organisation got into financial difficulty almost immediately. The Formula One operation was costing more than the customer car business was making. The March works team's contract with its lead driver, [[Chris Amon]], was expensive, and Mosley, in his own words, "tried at every opportunity to get rid of him".<ref>Lawrence (1989), p. 34.</ref> He reasoned that Stewart's highly competitive customer car was enough to show March in a good light. Amon stayed to the end of the year, but Mosley succeeded in "restructuring" his contract, saving the company some much-needed money.<ref>Henry (1989), p. 40.</ref> At the end of the season, Mosley successfully demanded full control of the finances, including the factory run by Coaker, who left shortly afterwards. Mosley and Herd borrowed £20,000 from relatives and friends to support the company into its second year. According to Lovell, the money came from Mosley's half-brother, [[Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne|Jonathan Guinness]].<ref>Lovell (2004), p. 119.</ref>
 
Tyrrell started making its own cars towards the end of 1970, and March's 1971 programme in Formula One was much reduced, with no recognised front-running driver. The Firestone and STP sponsorship was insufficient and Mosley failed to attract a large backer for 1971. Motorsport author Mike Lawrence has suggested that the shortfall forced him into short-term deals, which maintained cashflow, but were not in the best long-term interests of the company.<ref name="Lawrence 1989 p.46">Lawrence (1989), p. 46.</ref> Mosley negotiated a deal for the team to use [[Alfa Romeo in Formula One|Alfa Romeo]] engines in a third car, bringing much needed funding. The engines proved uncompetitive, and his hopes of an ongoing partnership with the Italian automobile manufacturer were not met.<ref>Lawrence (1989), pp. 54–59.</ref> Nonetheless, March again finished third in the constructors championship, and works driver [[Ronnie Peterson]], in a [[Cosworth DFV]]-powered car, was second in the [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|Drivers' Championship]]. March's financial woes continued: the company had lost £71,000 at the end of 1971. Mosley and Rees disagreed over how to rectify the situation and Rees left March early in 1972.<ref>Henry (1989), p. 64.</ref>
[[File:March 2-4-0 Louwman Museum.jpg|thumb|left|Mosley pushed for the unusual six-wheeled [[March 2-4-0]] designed by Robin Herd to be built because of its significant aerodynamic and other advantages. The car never raced, however sales of models of the car are said to make it the most profitable car the company ever made.<ref name=6wheel />]]
 
March was more successful in selling large numbers of customer cars in the lower formulae. Mosley organised extensive test sessions for the 1971 cars for journalists and drivers, and arranged a successful scheme for drivers to rent cars and engines for the season, rather than buying them outright.<ref name="Lawrence 1989 p.46"/> Losing money on a deal to supply [[Jochen Neerpasch]], then motorsport manager at [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]], with a Formula Two car paid off when Neerpasch moved to [[BMW in motorsport|BMW]] and offered March an exclusive deal to use BMW's Formula Two engine for the 1973 season.<ref>Lawrence (1989), p. 70.</ref> March cars powered by BMW engines won five of the next 11 European Formula Two championships.<ref>Lawrence (1989), pp. 238–251.</ref> 
 
Although March considered quitting Formula One on several occasions, money was always found to support at least one car. Motorsport historian Mike Lawrence credits Mosley with pressing for a six-wheeled March to be built as a draw for sponsors, having seen the popularity with fans of Tyrrell's six-wheeled [[Tyrrell P34|P34]]. The resulting [[March 2-4-0]] never competed in Formula One, but generated the required publicity and a [[Scalextric]] [[slotcar racing|slotcar]] model was profitable.<ref name=6wheel>Lawrence (1989), pp. 113–115.</ref> Mosley spent much of his time negotiating deals for drivers with sponsorship and was also successful in selling Marches to other Formula One teams, such as [[WilliamsF1|Williams]] and [[Penske Racing|Penske]]. The cars were rarely frontrunners, although the works team won a single race in both 1975 and 1976. By the end of 1977, Mosley was fed up with the struggle to compete in Formula One with no resources and left to work for FOCA full-time, selling his shares in the company to Herd but remaining as a director. March's involvement in Formula One ended the same year.{{efn|March works teams returned to Formula One in 1981–1982 and 1987–1992 (as [[Leyton House Racing]] in 1990 and 1991).<ref>{{cite web|title=March|url=https://www.statsf1.com/en/march.aspx|publisher=StatsF1|access-date=24 May 2021}}</ref>}}<ref>Lawrence (1989), p. 122.</ref>

==Formula One Constructors' Association==
{{Main|Formula One Constructors' Association}}
 
From 1969, Mosley was invited to represent March at the Grand Prix Constructors' Association (GPCA), which negotiated joint deals on behalf of its member teams. Although the new March organisation was not popular with the established teams, Mosley has said that "when they went along to meetings to discuss things such as prize money, they felt they ought to take me along because I was a lawyer".<ref name=FOCA1>Lawrence (1989), p. 33.</ref> He was unimpressed with the standard of negotiations: "our side all went in a group because no-one trusted anyone else and all were afraid that someone would break ranks and make a private deal."<ref name=FOCA1/> In 1971, British businessman [[Bernie Ecclestone]] bought the [[Brabham]] team, and Mosley recalled that: {{blockquote|Within about 20&nbsp;minutes of [Ecclestone] turning up at the [GPCA] meeting, it was apparent that here was someone who knew how many beans made five and after about half an hour he moved round the table to sit next to me, and from then on he and I started operating as a team. Within a very short time, the two of us were doing everything for the GPCA, instead of everyone moving around in a block, and from that developed FOCA.<ref name=FOCA1/>}}
 
The [[Formula One Constructors' Association]] (FOCA) was created in 1974 by Ecclestone, [[Colin Chapman]], [[Teddy Mayer]], Mosley, [[Ken Tyrrell]], and [[Frank Williams (Formula One)|Frank Williams]]. FOCA would represent the commercial interests of the teams at meetings with the Commission Sportive Internationale (CSI) a commission of  the FIA and motorsport's world governing body. The CSI later became the  [[Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile]] (FISA), motorsport's world governing body.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/cref-eccber.html|title=People: Bernie Ecclestone|access-date=30 January 2008|publisher=GrandPrix.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080128192017/http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/cref-eccber.html|archive-date=28 January 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> After leaving March at the end of {{f1|1977}}, Mosley officially became legal advisor to FOCA, which was led by Ecclestone. In his biography of Ecclestone, Terry Lovell suggests that he appointed Mosley to this role not only because of his legal ability, but also because he "saw in Mosley the necessary diplomatic and political skills that made him perfectly suited to the establishment of the FIA".<ref>Lovell (2004), p. 107.</ref> The [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile]] (FIA), founded in 1904 was FISA's parent body, representing road car users worldwide. In the same year, Mosley was nominated for a role at the FIA's Bureau Permanent International de Constructeurs d'Automobile (BPICA). His nomination was blocked by French, Italian, and German manufacturers.<ref>Lovell (2004), pp. 105–107.</ref>
 
In the early 1980s, Mosley represented FOCA in the "[[FISA–FOCA war]]", a conflict between FOCA, representing the mainly UK-based independent teams, and FISA, which was supported by the "[[grandee]]" constructors owned by road car manufacturers (primarily [[Alfa Romeo]], [[Ferrari]], and [[Renault]]). In 1980, FOCA announced its own World Federation of Motor Sport and ran the non-championship [[1981 South African Grand Prix]]. The staging of this event, with worldwide television coverage, helped persuade [[Jean-Marie Balestre]], the FISA president, that FISA would have to negotiate a settlement with FOCA. As Mosley later commented ... "We were absolutely [[wiktionary:skint|skint]]. If Balestre could have held the manufacturer's support for a little bit longer, the constructors would have been on their knees. The outcome would then have been very different."<ref>Lovell (2004), p. 142.</ref> Mosley helped draw up the [[Concorde Agreement]], a document which resolved the dispute by essentially giving FISA control of the rules and FOCA control of commercial and television rights. The most recent version of the Concorde Agreement expired on 31 December 2007, and a new one was being discussed, as of 2008. In 1982, the year after the first Concorde Agreement was signed, Mosley left his role at FOCA, and Formula One, to work for the Conservative Party.<ref name=Lovell82-86>Lovell (2004), pp. 230–231.</ref>

==FISA presidency==
{{Main|Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile}}
Mosley returned to motorsport in 1986, with the support of Ecclestone and Balestre, to become president of the FISA Manufacturers' Commission, the successor body to the BPICA with a seat on the FISA World Council. That same year, he established [[Simtek|Simtek Research]], a racing technical consultancy firm, with [[Nick Wirth]], a former March employee. He sold his share of Simtek in 1991, when elected president of the FISA.<ref>Lovell (2004), pp. 230–231, 245–246.</ref> According to Lovell, in 1987 Mosley suggested to Balestre that he could deal with his problems with Ecclestone by "mak[ing] him a member of the establishment". Later that year Ecclestone was appointed a vice-president of the FIA with responsibility for promotional affairs, with authority over Formula One and the other motor sports authorised by the FIA.<ref>Lovell (2004), pp. 226–227.</ref>
 
In 1991, Mosley challenged Balestre for the presidency of FISA. Mosley said that his decision to challenge the Frenchman was prompted by Balestre's reported intervention on behalf of his countryman [[Alain Prost]] to ensure that race stewards disqualified Brazilian driver [[Ayrton Senna]] from the [[1989 Japanese Grand Prix]].<ref name=Howell>Howell (9 October 1991).</ref><ref>Lovell (2004), p. 242.</ref> Mosley campaigned on the basis that Balestre, who was also president of the FIA and of the Fédération Française du Sport Automobile, could not effectively manage all these roles together. He also said that no-one challenged Balestre because they were afraid of the consequences and suggested that the FISA President should not interfere with F1, which could be left to run itself. Mosley won the FISA presidency by 43 votes to 29; Balestre remained as FIA president. Mosley resigned a year later, fulfilling a promise made during his election campaign to seek a re-affirmation of his mandate. "I wanted to show people that I do what I say", he said. "Now they can judge me in a year's time."<ref>Howell (10 October 1991).</ref> FISA immediately re-elected him.<ref>Lovell (2004), p. 244.</ref>

==FIA presidency==
[[File:Andy Priaulx 2007 Curitiba qualify.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Three-times [[World Touring Car Championship|WTCC Champion]] [[Andy Priaulx]] wearing the [[HANS device]] now mandated in FIA championships]]
{{Main|Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile}}

===1993–1997===
In 1993, Mosley agreed with Balestre that the Frenchman would stand down as president of the FIA in Mosley's favour, in return for the new role of President of the FIA Senate, to be created after Mosley's election. As well as motorsport, the FIA's remit includes the interests of motorists worldwide, an area in which Mosley wanted to involve himself. He had said, "That is what really interested me: [in F1] you maybe save one life every five years, whereas [in] road safety you are talking about thousands of lives".<ref name=Lovell247>Lovell (2004), pp. 247–248.</ref> A challenge to Mosley's election by Jeffrey Rose, chairman of the British [[Royal Automobile Club]], which arose was withdrawn when it became clear that the majority of voters were already committed to Mosley.<ref name=Lovell247 /> The FISA was then merged into the FIA as its sporting arm.<ref name="fia.com" />
 
After the deaths of the drivers Ayrton Senna and [[Roland Ratzenberger]] at the [[1994 San Marino Grand Prix]], worldwide media attention focused on the charismatic triple world champion Senna, rather than Ratzenberger, a virtual unknown driving for the minor Simtek team. Mosley did not go to Senna's funeral but attended that of Ratzenberger. In a press conference ten years later Mosley stated, "I went to his funeral because everyone went to Senna's. I thought it was important that somebody went to his".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/48657/max-went-to-roland-s-funeral/|title=Max went to Roland's funeral|access-date=30 January 2011|date=23 April 2004|publisher=GPUpdate.net|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120115225422/http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/48657/max-went-to-roland-s-funeral/|archive-date=15 January 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> In the aftermath of the deaths, and a number of other serious accidents, Mosley announced the formation of the Advisory Expert Group chaired by Professor [[Sid Watkins]], to research and improve safety in motor racing. Watkins, who learned of his new role by hearing Mosley announce it on the radio, has called it a "novel and revolutionary approach".<ref>Watkins (1996), pp. 175–179.</ref> The resulting changes included reducing the capacity and power of engines, the use of grooved tyres to reduce cornering speeds, the introduction of the [[HANS device]] to protect drivers necks in accidents, circuit re-design, and greatly increased requirements for [[crash test]]ing of chassis.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.formula1.com/inside_f1/understanding_the_sport/5279.html/ |title=HANS |access-date=21 March 2008 |publisher=Formula One |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071029133130/http://www.formula1.com/inside_f1/understanding_the_sport/5279.html |archive-date=29 October 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grandprix.com/ft/ft00211.html|title=The future of Formula 1 safety|access-date=28 March 2008|publisher=grandprix.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924023523/http://www.grandprix.com/ft/ft00211.html|archive-date=24 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> 
 
In 1995, a deal was signed between Ecclestone and the FIA that passed all of the commercial rights to Formula One to him for fifteen years, on the condition that they would return to the FIA at the end of that period. Ecclestone had been building up Formula One as a television package since the early 1990s, investing heavily in new [[digital television]] technology. For the duration of the deal, the FIA would receive an index-linked annual fixed royalty, estimated by Lovell at around 15%. Mosley said "My belief is that I got a better deal than anyone else could have because it was more difficult for Ecclestone to take a hard line with me as we had worked together for so long."<ref name=Lovell254>Lovell (2004), pp. 254–256.</ref> The following year, the FIA also passed the rights to all its other directly sanctioned championships and events to Ecclestone, also for 15&nbsp;years.<ref name=Lovell254 /> An attempt to add a 10-year extension to the F1 contract in return for a share in Ecclestone's proposed flotation of Formula One was later vetoed by the European Commission.<ref>Lovell (2004), p. 269.</ref> Mosley's agreement with Ecclestone on television rights for F1 angered three of the team principals in particular: Ron Dennis (McLaren), Frank Williams (Williams), and Ken Tyrrell (Tyrrell), who felt that neither Ecclestone nor the FIA had the right to make such an agreement without the teams. They refused to sign the 1997 Concorde Agreement without increased financial returns and threatened to make a complaint under [[European Union]] competition rules.<ref>Lovell (2004), pp. 271–274.</ref> The European Commission was already investigating the FIA's agreement with Ecclestone in what Lovell calls a "highly personal and bitter battle between Max Mosley and [EU commissioner Karel] [[Karel van Miert|van Miert]]".<ref>Lovell (2004), p. 265.</ref>

===1997–2001===
Mosley was elected to his second term as president of the FIA in October 1997.<ref name=fia.com>{{cite web|url=http://www.fia.com/mediacentre/Press_Releases/The_FIA/2005/October/281005-01.html|title=FIA President Elected For Four-Year Term|access-date=13 January 2008|date=28 October 2005|publisher=Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071227163223/http://www.fia.com/mediacentre/Press_Releases/The_FIA/2005/October/281005-01.html|archive-date=27 December 2007}}</ref>
Later that year, the EU Commission Directorate-General for Competition made a preliminary decision against Ecclestone and the FIA. The resulting warning letters from van Miert to the FIA and Ecclestone were leaked and ended the attempt to float F1; the FIA won a case against the commission for the leak in 1998.<ref>Lovell (2004), pp. 289–292.</ref>
 
At the same time, a local court in Germany ruled that the television rights to the FIA [[European Truck Racing Championship|European Truck Racing Cup]] (passed to Ecclestone by the FIA the previous year, along with all other FIA authorised championships) should be returned to the series organiser, following a complaint from German television company AE TV-Cooperations. The TV Company argued that Ecclestone and Mosley were in breach of commercial clauses in the [[Treaty of Rome]]; following the court's decision Mosley appealed the judgement and cancelled the series until further notice. On appeal, the court ruled that the series organiser should be able to sell the television rights to whoever they felt was the best option for coverage and the FIA reinstated the European Truck Racing Cup.
Between 1997 and 2000, Mosley repeatedly warned that if any EU decision went against the FIA, the marketing organisations and F1 itself would be moved out of Europe. In 1999, the EU Commission Directorate-General for Competition issued a Statement of Objections, listing a number of grievances surrounding the FIA's dealings with Ecclestone and Formula One. The FIA released the Statement to the media and held a press conference in Brussels ridiculing the commission's case. The Commission argued that a number of commercial agreements could be viewed as anti-competitive and invited the FIA and Ecclestone's companies, ISC and FOA, to submit proposals to modify these arrangements. In 2001, nine months after settlement talks had begun, the parties reached an agreement to amend existing contracts, which included Ecclestone stepping down as the FIA's vice-president of promotional affairs and the FIA ending all involvement in the commercial activities of Formula One.<ref name="eur-lex.europa.eu">{{cite web|title=Notice published pursuant to Article 19(3) of Council Regulation No 17 concerning Cases COMP/35.163 Notification of FIA Regulations, COMP/36.638 Notification by FIA/FOA of agreements relating to the FIA Formula One World Championship, COMP/36.776 GTR/FIA & others|url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2001:169:0005:0011:EN:PDF|publisher=Official Journal of the European Communities|date=13 June 2001|access-date=1 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107071920/http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2001:169:0005:0011:EN:PDF |archive-date=7 January 2016}}</ref>
 
Mosley came up with an innovative way to dispose of the FIA's involvement in the commercial activities of Formula One. In order to maintain Ecclestone's investment to deliver digital television, he proposed extending Ecclestone's rights for F1 coverage to 100 years from the initial 15, arguing that a deal of such length could not be anti-competition as it was effectively the same as an outright sale. The Commission agreed with his assessment and in the interest of impartiality, Mosley removed himself from the negotiations, which eventually returned around $300&nbsp;million (£150&nbsp;million).<ref name="eur-lex.europa.eu" />
The FIA planned to "put almost all of it into a charitable foundation which will then have the resources to undertake important work on improving safety in motor sport and in road safety",<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/26496/mosley-explains-tv-rights-sale/|title=Mosley explains TV rights sale|date=28 May 2001|publisher=GPUpdate|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714232840/http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/26496/mosley-explains-tv-rights-sale/|archive-date=14 July 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=1 May 2019}}</ref> and thus the FIA Foundation was created in 2001. In addition, the FIA continued to receive an annual dividend from the deal, Mosley stated: "Over the totality of the contract, and on an annual basis, the sum we have accepted represents billions of dollars. Looked at from that point of view, it is a huge amount of money."<ref name=":0" /> Lovell compares the figure to extend the rights to 100 years to the £600&nbsp;million [[KirchGruppe]] paid for the rights to the [[2002 FIFA World Cup|2002 Football World Cup]] and the £1.1&nbsp;billion [[British Sky Broadcasting]] paid for a three-year package of English [[Premier League]] football.<ref>Lovell (2004), pp. 277–278, 280–281, 306–314.</ref> The figure was not entirely comparable however due to the dispute over who actually owned Formula One. Before the settlement with the EU Commission was reached, Mosley feared that the FIA was losing control over the sport following a heated argument with Ecclestone in Paris. Ecclestone argued that he had built Formula One into the entity that it was and the FIA only had rights to designate the event as official. Ecclestone threatened to "do a [[scorched earth]]" if another party were to gain control of the commercial side of Formula One. Mosley came up with the solution in order for the FIA to retain its sporting management role and Ecclestone to retain his commercial role.<ref>{{cite book|first=Tom |last=Bower |title=No Angel: The Secret Life of Bernie Ecclestone |pages=245–247}}</ref>
 
[[File:Jacques Villeneuve 1996.jpg|thumb|left|From the late 1960s to the early 2000s, F1 teams were heavily dependent on funding from cigarette companies like [[Rothmans International plc|Rothmans]]. Mosley attempted to delay European legislation to outlaw the practice.]]
Over the same period, Mosley was attempting to delay European legislation banning [[tobacco advertising]]. Formula One advertisements were controlled by [[Paddy McNally]], an ex-[[Marlboro]] sponsorship consultant, and his company [[Allsport Management|Allsport Management SA]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paddy McNally - Latest Formula 1 Breaking News |url=https://www.grandprix.com/people/paddy-mcnally.html |access-date=22 February 2023 |website=www.grandprix.com}}</ref> At this time, all<!-- Rothmans Williams Renault, Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro, Mild Seven Benetton Renault, West McLaren Mercedes, B&H Total Jordan Peugeot and Gitanes Ligier Mugen Honda were the only teams to win races in F1 between 1988 and 1998 --> leading Formula One teams carried significant branding from tobacco brands; for instance, [[WilliamsF1|Williams]] ran with backing from [[Rothmans International plc|Rothmans]]; [[West (cigarette)|West]] was a backer of several teams including [[McLaren F1|McLaren]]; McLaren also enjoyed a long-term relationship with [[Marlboro (cigarette)|Marlboro]], as did [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]], and [[Mild Seven]] backed Benetton's Formula One effort. The Labour party had pledged to ban tobacco advertising in its manifesto ahead of its [[1997 United Kingdom general election|1997 General Election victory]], supporting a proposed [[European Union Directive]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4377928.stm |publisher=BBC News |title=Timeline: Smoking and disease |access-date=21 March 2008 |date=30 June 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080218205313/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4377928.stm |archive-date=18 February 2008 |url-status=live  }}</ref>  The Labour Party's stance on banning tobacco advertising was reinforced following the election by forceful statements from the Health Secretary [[Frank Dobson]] and Minister for Public Health [[Tessa Jowell]].<ref name="rawnsley">Rawnsley (2001), pp. 91–94.</ref> Ecclestone appealed "over Jowell's head" to [[Jonathan Powell (chief of staff to Tony Blair)|Jonathan Powell]], [[Tony Blair]]'s chief of staff, who arranged a meeting with Blair. Ecclestone and Mosley, both Labour Party donors,<ref name=Observer>{{cite news |title=The Observer profile: Max Mosley |work=The Observer |location=London |date=6 April 2008 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/apr/06/motorsports.andrewanthony |access-date=13 July 2008 |first=Andrew |last=Anthony |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223014351/http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/apr/06/motorsports.andrewanthony |archive-date=23 February 2014 |url-status=live  }}</ref> met Blair on 16 October 1997. Mosley argued that the proposed legislation was illegal by EU rules, that Formula One needed more time to find alternative sources of funding and that the prompt introduction of a ban would lead to races being held outside Europe, while the coverage, including tobacco logos, would still be broadcast into the EU.<ref name=Lovell330>Lovell (2004), pp. 330–343.</ref> He also argued that:
{{Blockquote|Motor racing was a world class industry which put Britain at the hi-tech edge. Deprived of tobacco money, Formula One would move abroad at the loss of 50,000 jobs, 150,000 part-time jobs and £900&nbsp;million of exports.<ref name="rawnsley"/>}}
On 4 November, the "fiercely anti-tobacco Jowell" argued in [[Brussels]] for an exemption for Formula One. Media attention initially focused on Labour bending its principles for a "glamour sport" and on the "false trail" of Jowell's husband's links to the [[Benetton Formula]] team. On 6 November, correspondents from three newspapers enquired whether Labour had received any donations from Ecclestone; he had donated £1&nbsp;million in January 1997.<ref name="rawnsley"/> On 11 November, Labour promised to return the money on the advice of [[Patrick Neill, Baron Neill of Bladen|Sir Patrick Neill]].<ref>{{cite news| title = How the Ecclestone affair unfolded| publisher = BBC News| date = 22 September 2000| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/937232.stm| access-date = 22 March 2008| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080113021814/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/937232.stm| archive-date = 13 January 2008| url-status = live| df = dmy-all}}</ref> On 17 November, Blair apologised for his government's mishandling of the affair and stated "the decision to exempt Formula One from tobacco sponsorship was taken two weeks later. It was in response to fears that Britain might lose the industry overseas to Asian countries who were bidding for it."<ref>{{cite news | title = Blair apologises for mishandling F1 row | publisher = BBC News | date = 17 November 1997 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/31780.stm | access-date = 22 March 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080528143903/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/31780.stm | archive-date = 28 May 2008 | url-status = live | df = dmy-all }}</ref>
 
The revised directive went into force in June 1998, and banned sponsorship from 2003, with a further three-year extension for "global sports such as Formula One". On 5 October 2000, the directive was overturned in the [[European Court of Justice]] on the grounds that it was unlawful.<ref>
{{cite news|title=European tobacco ban overturned|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/956194.stm|publisher=BBC News|date=5 October 2000|access-date=25 March 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312075805/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/956194.stm|archive-date=12 March 2009|url-status=live}}
</ref> A new Tobacco Advertising Directive took effect in July 2005; the ''[[Financial Times]]'' described Mosley as "furious" that this was a year earlier than provided for under the 1998 directive.<ref>{{cite news |first=Griffiths |last=John |author2=Laitner, Sarah|title=Brussels presses F1 over tobacco ties |work=Financial Times|date=31 August 2007 }}</ref> As of 2009, Ferrari is the only F1 team to retain tobacco sponsorship, although the team carries no explicit branding in races because of the European legislation. Although the FIA moved its headquarters out of the EU in 1999, it returned in 2001.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns03782.html|title=FIA to move back to Paris|date=21 February 2001|publisher=Inside F1, Inc|access-date=15 April 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203124928/http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns03782.html|archive-date=3 December 2008|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
[[File:IIHS Hyundai Tucson crash test.jpg|thumb|right|Mosley considered the use of F1 to promote [[Euro NCAP]] testing of cars his most enduring achievement as FIA president.]]
Asked in a 2003 interview about his most enduring achievement as president of the FIA, Mosley replied: "I think using Formula One to push ENCAP Crash-Testing."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://sport.independent.co.uk/motor_racing/article96759.ece|archive-url=https://archive.today/20080415114126/http://sport.independent.co.uk/motor_racing/article96759.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 April 2008|title=Max Mosley: Mosley the grand machinator of Formula One|work=The Independent |location=London |access-date=18 January 2008|date=19 July 2003|first=Brian|last=Viner }}</ref> The [[Euro NCAP|European New Car Assessment Programme]] (Euro NCAP) is a European [[car safety]] performance assessment programme that originated with work done by the [[Transport Research Laboratory]] for the UK [[Department for Transport]]. The FIA became involved in the programme in 1996, taking a lead in promoting it, and Mosley chaired the body from its launch as Euro NCAP in 1997 to 2004. Despite what NCAP describes as a "strong negative response" from car manufacturers at first, the initiative has expanded, and NCAP says that there has been a clear increase in the safety of modern cars as a result.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.euroncap.com/history.aspx |title=History |publisher=Euro NCAP |access-date=18 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071104114105/http://www.euroncap.com/history.aspx |archive-date=4 November 2007 }}</ref> The EU commission in 2000 stated that "EuroNCAP had become the single most important mechanism for achieving advances in vehicle safety"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/specialist/knowledge/safetyratings/changing_design_upgrading_standards_and_reducing_casualties/in_car_safety.htm|title=In-car safety|date=16 July 2013|publisher=European Commission|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203113737/http://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/specialist/knowledge/safetyratings/changing_design_upgrading_standards_and_reducing_casualties/in_car_safety.htm|archive-date=3 February 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=21 January 2014}}</ref> and "the most cost effective road safety action available to the EU."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.epha.org/a/894|title=EU activities on road safety|date=1 April 2005|publisher=European Public Health Alliance|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202163759/http://www.epha.org/a/894|archive-date=2 February 2014|url-status=live|access-date=21 January 2014}}</ref> Mosley continued to promote the matter through his membership of initiatives such as CARS 21, the European Commission's policy group aimed at improving the worldwide competitiveness of the European automotive industry.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fia.com/mediacentre/Press_Releases/FIA_Sport/2005/130105-01.html |title=European Commission invites FIA President to join new high level automotive policy group |date=13 January 2005 |publisher=Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile |access-date=2 January 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081122122602/http://www.fia.com/mediacentre/Press_Releases/FIA_Sport/2005/130105-01.html |archive-date=22 November 2008 }}</ref>
 
In February 2001, Mosley announced his intention to stand again for the presidency in October of that year, saying that if successful this third term would be his last.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns03776.html|title=Mosley to stand for third term as president of the FIA|date=9 February 2001|publisher=Inside F1, Inc|access-date=15 April 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203145638/http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns03776.html|archive-date=3 December 2008|url-status=live}}</ref>

===2001–2005===
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Mosley was elected to his third term as president of the FIA in 2001.<ref name=fia.com/><ref>{{cite web|title=Mosley Re-Elected as FIA President for 4 Years|url=http://www.atlasf1.com/news/2001/oct/report.php/id/5805/.html|website=AtlasF1.com|publisher=Haymarket Media|access-date=16 February 2015|date=5 October 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923202114/http://www.atlasf1.com/news/2001/oct/report.php/id/5805/.html|archive-date=23 September 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> From 2000, Formula One saw the return of teams partly or wholly owned and operated by major motor manufacturers, who feared that under Ecclestone's management F1 coverage would go to [[pay television]], reducing the value of their investment. In 2001, the [[Grand Prix Manufacturers Association]] (GPMA) announced an alternative world championship, the [[Grand Prix World Championship]] to start by 2008. The GPMA stipulated that the championship should not be regulated by the FIA, which Lovell believes was because the organisation believed Mosley was too close to Ecclestone.<ref>Lovell (2004), pp. 357–361.</ref> The proposed championship came to nothing and the GPMA later became the [[Formula One Teams Association]] (FOTA).<ref>{{cite web|last=Collantine|first=Keith|title=Why have the teams formed their own group and what does it mean for F1?|url=https://www.racefans.net/2008/08/01/why-have-the-teams-formed-their-own-group-and-what-does-it-mean-for-f1/|publisher=RaceFans|date=1 August 2008|access-date=24 May 2021}}</ref>
 
In June 2004, Mosley announced that he would step down from his position in October of that year, one year early, saying "I no longer find it either satisfying or interesting to sit in long meetings [...] I have achieved in this job everything I set out to [...]".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2004/jul/03/formulaone.comment1|title=Mosley is overtaken by age and ennui|last=Henry|first=Alan|date=3 July 2004|work=The Guardian|access-date=23 January 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826125025/http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2004/jul/03/formulaone.comment1|archive-date=26 August 2014|url-status=live|location=London}}</ref> One month later, he rescinded his decision after the FIA Senate called for him to stay on.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/3900965.stm|date=16 July 2004|title=Mosley stays at FIA helm|access-date=25 November 2007|publisher=BBC Sport|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040723223146/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/3900965.stm|archive-date=23 July 2004|url-status=live}}</ref>  According to a [[BBC Sport]] profile, many insiders considered that the announcement, and Mosley's public disagreements with Ecclestone, were "just part of a well crafted plan to strengthen their control over the sport";<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/3733150.stm|date=11 October 2004|title=The main men in F1|access-date=13 July 2007|publisher=BBC Sport|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070821234412/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/3733150.stm|archive-date=21 August 2007|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Ron Dennis]], the [[McLaren]] team principal, suggested that it arose because Mosley's proposals for Formula One met opposition.<ref name=bbc>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/3864357.stm|date=4 July 2004|title=Dennis doubts Mosley motive|access-date=15 November 2007|publisher=BBC Sport|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040706011342/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/3864357.stm|archive-date=6 July 2004|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2004, Mosley said he felt Ferrari's then team principal [[Jean Todt]] should succeed him as president of the FIA when he stepped down.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/3784285.stm|title=Todt 'in line for top job'|date=7 June 2004|access-date=25 November 2007|publisher=BBC Sport|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040713052448/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/3784285.stm|archive-date=13 July 2004|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
The [[2005 United States Grand Prix]] was run with only six cars, after the [[Michelin]] [[tyres]] used by the other 14 cars proved unsafe for the circuit. A proposal involving the addition of a temporary [[chicane]] to slow cars through the fastest corner of the circuit was suggested but rejected by Mosley.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=189438&FS=F1|date=22 June 2005|title=Stoddart comments on US Grand Prix|access-date=24 February 2006|publisher=Motorsport.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606150344/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=189438&FS=F1|archive-date=6 June 2011}}</ref> He stated his reasons for not agreeing to the chicane: "Formula One is a dangerous activity and it would be most unwise to make fundamental changes to a circuit without following tried and tested procedures. What happened was bad but can be put right. This is not true of a fatality." He continued, "Formula One is a sport which entertains. It is not entertainment disguised as sport."  Mosley gave three possible solutions for the Michelin runners: to use qualifying tyres but change them whenever necessary on safety grounds, to use a different tyre to be provided by Michelin or to run at reduced speed. These were all rejected by the Michelin-shod teams.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2005/6/3218.html|title=Questions to Max Mosley – the US Grand Prix|date=23 June 2005|publisher=Formula One|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222204420/http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2005/6/3218.html|archive-date=22 February 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=18 February 2014}}</ref> [[Paul Stoddart]], the owner of the [[Minardi]] team who ran on [[Bridgestone]] tyres, was prepared to compromise to accommodate Michelin teams—even though a reduced field would guarantee his team much needed points—and was particularly vocal in his criticism and renewed his calls for Mosley to resign.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/4123710.stm|title=Mosley rejects US race criticism|date=23 June 2005|access-date=9 December 2007|publisher=BBC Sport|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060223101808/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/4123710.stm|archive-date=23 February 2006|url-status=live}}</ref>

===2005–2009===
{{Further|Mosley v News Group Newspapers Limited}}
Mosley was elected unopposed to his fourth term as president of the FIA in 2005.<ref name=fia.com/> In recognition of his contribution to road safety and motorsport, Mosley was made a Chevalier dans l'Ordre de la [[Légion d'honneur]] in 2006. The Légion d'honneur (Legion of Honour) is France's highest decoration for outstanding achievements in military or civil life; a Chevalier (Knight) is the fifth class.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fiafoundation.com/policy/road_safety/news/max_mosley_awarded_legion_d_honneur.html |title=Max Mosley Awarded Légion d'Honneur |publisher=FIA Foundation |access-date=25 November 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070325111815/http://www.fiafoundation.com/policy/road_safety/news/max_mosley_awarded_legion_d_honneur.html |archive-date=25 March 2007 }}</ref>
 
Continuing a theme of his presidency, in 2006 Mosley called for Formula One manufacturers to develop technology relevant to road cars.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/5065314.stm|title=Mosley planning 'green' F1 future|first=Andrew|last=Benson|publisher=BBC Sport|date=9 June 2006|access-date=24 November 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061219225340/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/5065314.stm|archive-date=19 December 2006|url-status=live}}</ref> In recent years, a large proportion of the enormous budget of Formula One has been spent on the development of very powerful, very high-revving engines, which some say have little applicability to road cars. Mosley announced a 10-year freeze on the development of engines, to allow manufacturers to spend more of their budgets on [[environmentally friendly]] technology such as the [[Kinetic Energy Recovery System]] (KERS) introduced in 2009.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/64280|title=Mosley: engine freeze beneficial for all|first=Jonathan|last=Noble|access-date=24 December 2007|date=5 December 2007|work=Autosport|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080118130823/http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/64280|archive-date=18 January 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> In July 2008, he sent a letter to the Formula One teams, in which he called for the teams to propose future sporting regulations to address specific issues including reduced fuel consumption.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/7/8034.html|title=Mosley calls on teams to halve costs by 2011|date=3 July 2008|publisher=Formula One|access-date=7 July 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080707023512/http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/7/8034.html|archive-date=7 July 2008|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
The [[2007 Formula One season]] was dominated by Ferrari's accusations that the McLaren team had made illegal use of their intellectual property, leading to legal cases in the United Kingdom and Italy. Unlike previous cases, such as the [[Toyota F1|Toyota]] team's illegal use of Ferrari intellectual property in 2004 that had been handled by German police,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/58339|title=Ex-Ferrari employees guilty of espionage|date=24 April 2007|work=Autosport|access-date=3 April 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080609080049/http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/58339|archive-date=9 June 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> the FIA investigated. They initially found McLaren innocent; unable to find enough evidence to suggest that anyone other than designer [[Mike Coughlan]] had seen the information or that the team had used it. [[Ron Dennis]], team principal of McLaren, was unaware at this point that Mosley had been sent personal e-mails from [[Fernando Alonso]], stating that the data had been used and seen by others in the team. When Italian police uncovered a series of text messages between McLaren and their spy at Ferrari, the team was hauled in front of the World Motor Sports Council (WMSC) once more. This time they were found guilty and eventually fined a gross $100M and excluded from the 2007 constructors' championship.<ref name="FIA press release">{{cite press release|title=Re: Article 151(c) International Sporting Code – Vodafone McLaren Mercedes |publisher=World Motor Sports council |url=http://www.fia.com/resources/documents/17844641__WMSC_Decision_130907.pdf |date=13 September 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022060508/http://www.fia.com/resources/documents/17844641__WMSC_Decision_130907.pdf |archive-date=22 October 2007 }}</ref> Later in the year, the [[Renault F1|Renault]] team was found guilty by the FIA of possessing some of McLaren's intellectual property, but was not punished,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns19919.html|title=The full World Council decision|date=7 December 2007|publisher=Grandprix.com|access-date=3 April 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080314181937/http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns19919.html|archive-date=14 March 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> as the "FIA's WMSC decided there was not enough evidence to show the championship had been affected."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2327879/F1-Spygate-cloud-still-looms-over-Renault.html|title=F1 'Spygate' cloud still looms over Renault|first=Andrew|last=Baker|date=8 December 2007 |access-date=2 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228164759/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2327879/F1-Spygate-cloud-still-looms-over-Renault.html|archive-date=28 February 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>  In relation to McLaren, triple world champion [[Jackie Stewart]] criticised Mosley and stated that other teams did not back McLaren for "fear of repercussions".<ref name=Stewart>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article5447254.ece|title=Sir Jackie Stewart delivers damning verdict|last=Gorman|first=Edward|date=5 January 2009|work=The Times|location=London|access-date=5 January 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302213003/http://www.timesonline.co.uk//tol//sport//formula_1//article5447254.ece|archive-date=2 March 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> Television commentator and newspaper columnist [[Martin Brundle]], a former driver, was among those who criticised the FIA and Mosley for inconsistency and questioned the "energetic manner" in which he felt McLaren was being pursued, suggesting that there was a "witch hunt" against the team.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article3021312.ece|title=How can Formula One justify blatant double standards?|first=Martin|last=Brundle|author-link=Martin Brundle|date=9 December 2007|work=The Times|location=London|access-date=3 April 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725144647/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article3021312.ece|archive-date=25 July 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> Brundle and the ''[[Sunday Times]]'' subsequently received a [[writ]] for libel before the paper printed a correction. Mosley went on to defend himself of the charges made by Brundle, highlighting that the WMSC originally acquitted McLaren of any wrongdoing, stating: "Concrete evidence of use by McLaren of the Ferrari information was simply not there." It was only later in the year when "e-mails emerged which showed others inside McLaren were indeed aware of the Ferrari information", that the FIA found the team guilty.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/f1news/6789216/Max-Mosley-the-inside-story-on-McLarens-spygate-and-the-F1-teams-breakaway.html|title=Max Mosley: the inside story on McLaren's 'spygate' and the F1 teams breakaway|first=Max|last=Mosley|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=12 December 2009|access-date=2 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228042632/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/f1news/6789216/Max-Mosley-the-inside-story-on-McLarens-spygate-and-the-F1-teams-breakaway.html|archive-date=28 February 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
At the start of 2008, Mosley said that he wanted to see through reforms such as budget capping and new technologies like KERS introduced into Formula One before retiring.<ref name=RichardRae>{{cite news|first=Richard|last=Rae|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article3382042.ece|title=Max Mosley still in driving seat|date=17 February 2008|access-date=19 February 2007|work=The Times|location=London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007091449/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article3382042.ece|archive-date=7 October 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> In March of that year, the ''[[News of the World]]'' released video footage of Mosley engaged in acts with five consenting women in a scenario that the paper alleged involved Nazi role-playing (an allegation that, though dismissed in court as having "no genuine basis", allegedly "ruined" Mosley's reputation).<ref>{{cite news|last1=Holmwood|first1=Leigh|last2=Fitzsimmons|first2=Caitlin|title=Max Mosley wins £60,000 in privacy case|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/jul/24/mosley.privacy|access-date=28 May 2015|work=The Guardian|date=24 July 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130902124604/http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/jul/24/mosley.privacy|archive-date=2 September 2013|quote=I found that there was no evidence that the gathering on 28 March 2008 was intended to be an enactment of Nazi behaviour or adoption of any of its attitudes. Nor was it in fact. I see no genuine basis at all for the suggestion that the participants mocked the victims of the Holocaust.|url-status=live}}</ref> The situation was made more controversial by his father's association with the [[Nazis]].<ref>{{cite news| title = FIA wants to stay clear of sex scandal involving its president and newspaper | work=International Herald Tribune | date = 30 March 2008 | url = http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/30/sports/EU-SPT-CAR-Mosley-Sex-Scandal.php| access-date = 28 May 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080405161200/http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/30/sports/EU-SPT-CAR-Mosley-Sex-Scandal.php | archive-date = 5 April 2008 | url-status = dead}}</ref> Mosley admitted "the embarrassment the revelations caused", but said that there was no Nazi theme involved.<ref>{{cite news|title=Embattled Mosley vows to fight on |publisher=ITV |date=2 April 2008 |url=http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?id=42182 |access-date=2 April 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080402224903/http://www.itv-f1.com/news_article.aspx?id=42182 |archive-date=2 April 2008 }}</ref> He was strongly criticised by former drivers, motor manufacturers, and several of the national motoring bodies who form the FIA.<ref>{{cite news| first=Ashling| last=O'Connor; Gorman, Ed| title=Max Mosley faces calls to quit as Formula One chief after 'Nazi' orgy| work=The Times| date=30 March 2008| url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article3649197.ece| access-date=30 March 2008| location=London| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509083439/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article3649197.ece| archive-date=9 May 2009| url-status=dead| df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = BMW, Mercedes slam Mosley's behaviour | work = Autosport | date = 3 April 2008 | url = http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/66291 | access-date = 4 April 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080409210411/http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/66291 | archive-date = 9 April 2008 | url-status = live | df = dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = Honda asks FIA to consider Mosley's role | work = Autosport | date = 3 April 2008 | url = http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/66295 | access-date = 4 April 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080409210421/http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/66295 | archive-date = 9 April 2008 | url-status = live | df = dmy-all }}</ref> His involvement in the [[Bahrain Grand Prix]] was cancelled.<ref>{{cite news | title = Crown Prince of Bahrain bars Max Mosley over 'Nazi prostitute' claim | work = The Times | location = London | date = 3 April 2008 | url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article3671084.ece | access-date = 4 April 2008 | first = Edward | last = Gorman | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080727004704/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article3671084.ece | archive-date = 27 July 2008 | url-status = dead | df = dmy-all }}</ref> Public expressions of support were limited. Mosley said that he received much supportive correspondence,<ref>{{cite news | title = Defiant Mosley vows to fight on | publisher = BBC | date = 1 April 2008 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7325602.stm | access-date = 30 December 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080429230926/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7325602.stm | archive-date = 29 April 2008 | url-status = live | df = dmy-all }}</ref> and said that he would continue to the end of his current term, which he said would be his last.<ref name="Mosquit2008">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8115182.stm|title=Mosley hits back at calls to quit|date=23 June 2009|access-date=23 June 2009|publisher=BBC Sport}}</ref> Mosley's longtime ally Ecclestone eventually appeared to support Mosley's removal.<ref>{{cite news| title = Ecclestone ups pressure on Mosley| publisher = BBC News| date = 27 April 2008| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7369696.stm| access-date = 27 April 2008| first = Andrew| last = Benson| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080501021531/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7369696.stm| archive-date = 1 May 2008| url-status = live| df = dmy-all}}</ref>
 
Mosley won a vote of confidence at an Extraordinary General Meeting of the FIA on 3 June 2008, with 103 votes in support and 55 against, with seven abstentions and four invalid votes.<ref>
{{cite news| title =Mosley wins confidence vote in Paris| work =Autosport| url =http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/67957| date =3 June 2008| access-date =3 June 2008| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20080604001450/http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/67957| archive-date =4 June 2008| url-status =live| df =dmy-all}}
</ref> Several clubs, including the [[ADAC]], [[American Automobile Association|AAA]] and KNAC Nationale Autosport Federatie (KNAF) considered withdrawal from the FIA after the decision.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/67969|title=South African bodies consider FIA future|author1=Steven English|author2=Dieter Rencken|name-list-style=amp|date=4 June 2008|work=Autosport|access-date=7 April 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008040634/http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/67969|archive-date=8 October 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> Other formerly critical organisations subsequently said that they would accept the outcome of the vote and wished to move on.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7437083.stm|title=Ferrari boss makes Mosley U-turn|date=5 June 2008|access-date=7 April 2009|publisher=BBC Sport}}</ref> In July 2008, Mosley won a [[High Court of Justice|High Court]] legal case against the ''News of the World'' for invasion of privacy.<ref>''Mosley v News Group Newspapers Plc'' [2008] EWHC 1777 (QB), (2008) Times, 30 July.</ref> The presiding judge, [[Mr Justice Eady]], said there was: "no evidence that the gathering on 28 March 2008 was intended to be an enactment of Nazi behaviour or adoption of any of its attitudes. Nor was it in fact. I see no genuine basis at all for the suggestion that the participants mocked the victims of the Holocaust."<ref>{{cite news|title=Mosley wins court case over orgy|date=24 July 2008|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7523034.stm|publisher=BBC News|access-date=24 July 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081001164434/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7523034.stm|archive-date=1 October 2008|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
In December 2008, Mosley said that he still intended to stand down when his term ran out in October 2009, but would take the final decision in June of that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.formula1.com/news/interviews/2008/12/8797.html|title=Exclusive interview – FIA President Max Mosley|date=23 December 2008|publisher=Formula One Administration Ltd|access-date=23 December 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081223115736/http://www.formula1.com/news/interviews/2008/12/8797.html|archive-date=23 December 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> Mosley's close relationship with Ecclestone, the sport's promoter, was criticised in early 2009 by Sir Jackie Stewart, who suggested that Mosley should resign in favour of a CEO from outside motorsport.<ref name=Stewart />
 
In mid-2009, the FIA and the newly formed [[Formula One Teams Association]] [[FIA–FOTA dispute|disagreed]] over the format of rules for the following season. When the entry list for the 2010 championship was announced on 12 June 2009, the entries of five of the eight FOTA teams remained provisional on their acceptance of the new rules. The next day, the [[European Automobile Manufacturers Association]] announced its support for FOTA's request for "stability, clear rules, a clear and transparent system of governance" and their threat to form a breakaway series from Formula One. The BBC Sport website reported this as an attack on Mosley's authority and noted that Mosley was expected to stand again for the presidency in 2009.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8098900.stm|title=Ferrari increase pressure on FIA |date=13 June 2009|publisher=BBC |access-date=14 June 2009}}</ref>
 
On 23 June, Mosley said he was considering running for a fifth term as FIA president in October "in light of the attack on my mandate".<ref name="Mosquit2008" /> However, the following day FOTA and the FIA reached an agreement with Mosley agreeing not to stand for re-election as part of the deal: 'now there is peace'.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8116756.stm |title=F1 resolution found, says Mosley |publisher=BBC News  |date=24 June 2009 |access-date=4 October 2010}}</ref> [[Luca di Montezemolo]] welcomed Mosley's decision to stand down and called Mosley a 'dictator'. Mosley responded by saying that he was still considering his 'options' and might well stand for re-election in October after all.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.planet-f1.com/story/0,18954,3213_5401472,00.html |title=MAX THREATENS U-TURN UNLESS FOTA APOLOGISE |date=26 June 2009 |publisher=planet-f1 |access-date=28 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627025110/http://www.planet-f1.com/story/0%2C18954%2C3213_5401472%2C00.html |archive-date=27 June 2009 }}</ref> He later said that he was "under pressure from all over the world" to stand for re-election.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.planet-f1.com/story/0,18954,3213_5404493,00.html |title=MAX: I'M UNDER PRESSURE TO STAND FOR RE-ELECTION |date=28 June 2009 |publisher=planet-f1 |access-date=28 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090701055017/http://www.planet-f1.com/story/0%2C18954%2C3213_5404493%2C00.html |archive-date=1 July 2009 }}</ref> On 15 July, Mosley confirmed that he would after all stand down, and again endorsed former Ferrari Executive Director Jean Todt as his successor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns21651.html|title=Mosley stands down, wants Todt to follow|date=15 July 2009|publisher=Inside F1, Inc.|access-date=17 July 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090718112018/http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns21651.html|archive-date=18 July 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> Todt subsequently became president.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8322393.stm|title=Todt elected as Mosley successor |date=23 October 2009|publisher=BBC |access-date=27 February 2010}}</ref>

==Sex scandal and further legal issues==
In 2008, Mosley won a court case (''[[Mosley v News Group Newspapers]]'') against the ''News of the World'' newspaper which had reported his involvement in what they said was a Nazi-themed sex act involving five women, on the grounds that it had breached his privacy. Justice Eady ruled that, despite one of the attendees wearing a military uniform, there were no Nazi connotations to the [[orgy]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/24_07_08mosleyvnewsgroup.pdf "Case No: HQ08X01303"], High Court of Justice, [2008] EWHC 1777 (QB), 24 July 2008</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/2459523/Max-Mosley-orgy-prostitute-says-sex-games-were-not-Nazi.html|title=Max Mosley orgy prostitute says sex games were not Nazi|last=Gardham|first=Duncan|date=25 July 2008|website=The Daily Telegraph|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119221929/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/2459523/Max-Mosley-orgy-prostitute-says-sex-games-were-not-Nazi.html|archive-date=19 January 2018|url-status=live|access-date=2 April 2018}}</ref> As a result, in 2009 Mosley brought a case (''[[Mosley v United Kingdom]]'') against the UK's privacy laws in the [[European Court of Human Rights]], in a bid to force newspapers to warn people before exposing their private lives so they could have the opportunity to seek a court injunction. The case was rejected by the court on 10 May 2011 as they argued that a "pre-notification requirement would inevitably affect political reporting and serious journalism."<ref>{{cite news|last=Sweeny|first=Mark|title=Max Mosley loses European privacy case|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/may/10/max-mosley-loses-european-privacy-case|work=The Guardian|publisher=Guardian News and Media Ltd.|access-date=10 May 2011|location=London|date=10 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130930074854/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/may/10/max-mosley-loses-european-privacy-case|archive-date=30 September 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> 
 
In July 2011, ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' reported that Mosley was financially guaranteeing the court costs of claimants who may have been subjected to [[News of the World phone hacking scandal|phone hacking by the ''News of the World'']]. Mosley refused to comment at the time, but he later gave a television interview to the BBC and a telephone interview to [[Reuters]] where he confirmed the story.<ref>{{cite news|last=Mendick|first=Robert|title=Max Mosley bankrolls phone hacking cases against the News of the World|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8628253/Max-Mosley-bankrolls-phone-hacking-cases-against-the-News-of-the-World.html|access-date=15 July 2011|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=9 July 2011|location=London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714051709/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8628253/Max-Mosley-bankrolls-phone-hacking-cases-against-the-News-of-the-World.html|archive-date=14 July 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Mosley launched legal action against [[Google]], in an attempt to stop searches from returning web pages which use the photographs from the video used for the ''News of the World'' story.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/02/google_chooses_not_to_censor_mosley_content_mp_says/|title=Google 'chooses' not to censor Mosley content, MP says|website=[[The Register]]|access-date=4 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006104411/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/02/google_chooses_not_to_censor_mosley_content_mp_says/|archive-date=6 October 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> On 6 November 2013, in [[Mosley v SARL Google]], a French court sided with Mosley and ordered Google to prevent its [[search engine]] from providing links to images of Mosley engaging in sexual activities from the video. ''[[The Register]]'' suggested the ruling would lead to a [[Streisand effect]], increasing interest in the images, which are still findable through other search engines.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hamill |first=Jasper |date=7 November 2013 |title=Google must DELETE Mosley's FIVE-HOOKER ORGY. Now everyone will view it AGAIN |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/07/max_mosley_hookers_orgy_sadomasochism_video_streisand_effect/ |newspaper=[[The Register]] |access-date=7 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131108020723/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/07/max_mosley_hookers_orgy_sadomasochism_video_streisand_effect/ |archive-date=8 November 2013 |url-status=live  }}</ref> At the [[Leveson Inquiry]], Mosley stated his reasons for pursuing Google:
 
{{Blockquote|text=the fundamental point is that Google could stop this material appearing but they don't, or they won't as a matter of principle. My position is that if the search engines – if somebody were to stop the search engines producing the material, the actual sites don't really matter because without a search engine, nobody will find it, it would just be a few friends of the person who posts it. The really dangerous things are the search engines.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-24-November-2011.pdf |title=Day 7 – AM – Leveson Inquiry |access-date=20 January 2014 |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140122145147/http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-24-November-2011.pdf |archive-date=22 January 2014 |url-status=unfit |df=dmy-all }}</ref>}}
 
Mosley launched similar legal action against Google in Germany. In January 2014, the German court also ruled against the American company.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2325313/german-court-orders-google-to-block-max-mosley-sex-party-images|title=German court orders Google to block Max Mosley sex party images|date=27 January 2014|access-date=5 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140131200553/http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2325313/german-court-orders-google-to-block-max-mosley-sex-party-images|archive-date=31 January 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> In giving its verdict, the court stated, "that the banned pictures of the plaintiff severely violate his private sphere."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-germany-court-idUSBREA0N0Y420140124|title=German court orders Google to block Max Mosley sex pictures|date=24 January 2017|newspaper=Reuters|access-date=2 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730223259/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-germany-court-idUSBREA0N0Y420140124|archive-date=30 July 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

In an interview with ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' following the judgement, Mosley said: "Strictly speaking Google has got to obey German courts in Germany and French courts in France. But in the end it has to decide whether it wants to live in a democracy. Google behaves like an adolescent rebelling against the establishment. The company has to recognise that it is a part of society and it must accept the responsibility which comes with that."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/max-mosley-discusses-his-fight-against-google-a-946180.html|title=Max Mosley: Google Is So 'Arrogant They Do Whatever They Like'|first=SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg|last=Germany|newspaper=Der Spiegel|date=29 January 2014|access-date=5 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140205131954/http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/max-mosley-discusses-his-fight-against-google-a-946180.html|archive-date=5 February 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Mosley then launched proceedings against Google in the UK. All the cases were eventually settled in May 2015.<ref>{{cite web|title=Max Mosley agrees settlement with Google|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11609190/Max-Mosley-agrees-settlement-with-Google-in-row-over-sex-orgy-images.html|website=telegraph.co.uk|access-date=9 March 2017|date=15 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312131858/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11609190/Max-Mosley-agrees-settlement-with-Google-in-row-over-sex-orgy-images.html|archive-date=12 March 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

In late February 2018, the ''[[Daily Mail]]'' reported that Mosley had published a leaflet in the early 1960s linking black immigration to the spread of diseases, the implication being that Mosley had committed [[perjury]] in the High Court when giving evidence in his libel case against the ''News of the World''.<ref name="Syal270218">{{cite news|last=Syal|first=Rajeev|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/feb/27/max-mosley-accused-by-daily-mail-of-publishing-racist-leaflet-in-1960s|title=Max Mosley accused by Daily Mail of publishing racist leaflet in 1960s|work=The Guardian|date=27 February 2018|access-date=28 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228001725/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/feb/27/max-mosley-accused-by-daily-mail-of-publishing-racist-leaflet-in-1960s|archive-date=28 February 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Moore">{{cite news|last=Moore|first=Matthew|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/max-mosley-in-storm-over-racist-leaflet-bvzgk80sz|title=Max Mosley in storm over racist leaflet|work=The Times|date=28 February 2018|access-date=28 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228071527/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/max-mosley-in-storm-over-racist-leaflet-bvzgk80sz|archive-date=28 February 2018|url-status=live}}{{subscription required}}</ref> In an interview with [[Cathy Newman]] on ''[[Channel 4 News]]'', he conceded that a passage in the leaflet "probably is racist", which he denied ever publishing, and rejected the accusation he had lied in court.<ref name="Syal270218"/><ref name="Moore"/> The following day, the Labour Party said it would not accept any further donations from Mosley, including further support for the office of deputy leader [[Tom Watson (Labour politician)|Tom Watson]]; Mosley had donated £500,000 in total to Watson's office.<ref name="Syal280218">{{cite news|last1=Syal|first1=Rajevv|last2=Sabbagh|first2=Dan|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/feb/28/labour-says-it-will-stop-accepting-donations-from-max-mosley|title=Labour says it will stop accepting donations from Max Mosley|work=The Guardian|date=28 February 2018|access-date=28 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228172441/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/feb/28/labour-says-it-will-stop-accepting-donations-from-max-mosley|archive-date=28 February 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Asked what he would do about the ''Daily Mail''{{'}}s publication of its article, Mosley said what happened next was, "entirely in the hands of my lawyers".<ref name="Syal280218"/>

In December 2020, it was announced that the High Court had rejected Mosley's legal action against the publisher of the ''Daily Mail'' for sending a [[wikt:dossier|dossier]] which suggested that he had lied under oath to prosecutors. Justice Matthew Nicklin wrote that "The claimant's pleaded claim discloses no reasonable grounds for bringing his claim for malicious prosecution." In fact, no prosecution had taken place.<ref>{{cite news |title=High court rejects Max Mosley's legal action against Daily Mail |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/dec/22/high-court-rejects-max-mosleys-legal-action-against-daily-mail |access-date=22 December 2020 |work=The Guardian Online |agency=PA Media |date=22 December 2020}}</ref>

In 2009, audio from the alleged recorded session was used on the 16 Bit song "M Dot Mosley" as reference to the scandal.

==Death==
Mosley died by suicide on 23 May 2021 after developing cancer,<ref name="rip">{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/may/24/max-mosley-obituary|title=Max Mosley obituary|date=24 May 2021|website=the Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Max Mosley dead: Former F1 supremo dies aged 81|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/motor-racing/formula1/max-mosley-death-age-f1-b1852874.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220512/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/motor-racing/formula1/max-mosley-death-age-f1-b1852874.html |archive-date=12 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|first=Lawrence|last=Ostlere|date=24 May 2021|access-date=24 May 2021|newspaper=The Independent|location=London}}</ref> with the news being confirmed by [[Bernie Ecclestone]]. He was 81. He was buried next to his mother in St. Mary's Churchyard, Swinbrook, Oxfordshire. His wife Jean died later in the same year, aged 81, and was interred with him.

On 29 March 2022, an inquest into his death confirmed that Mosley was found with a fatal gunshot wound to his head. Mosley had been told that he had just "weeks" to live and told his personal assistant of 20 years that he was going to take his own life the day before he did so.<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 March 2022 |title=Max Mosley 'found with fatal gunshot wound after learning he had terminal cancer' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/f1-max-mosley-shooting-gunshot-b2046472.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220512/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/f1-max-mosley-shooting-gunshot-b2046472.html |archive-date=12 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=29 March 2022 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref><ref name="BBC"/>

== Depictions ==

Mosley is played by [[Ron Cook]] in the 2025 ITV drama about the [[News International phone hacking scandal]], ''[[The Hack]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Fear |first1=Helen |title=The Hack on ITV1: The talented - and HUGE! - cast of phone hacking drama led by David Tennant |url=https://www.tvguide.co.uk/streaming-guide/the-hack-itv-insanely-talented-cast-phone-hacking-scandal-david-tennant-toby-jones-robert-carlyle |website=TV Guide |access-date=25 September 2025 |language=en}}</ref>

==Racing records==

===Formula One Non-Championship results===
([[:Template:F1 driver results legend|key]])
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%"
! Year
! Entrant
! Chassis
! Engine
! 1
! 2
! 3
! 4
! Ref
|-
| {{F1|1969}}
! Len Street Engineering
! [[Team Lotus|Lotus]] [[Lotus 59|59]] F2
! [[Cosworth]] [[Cosworth#The FVA series|FVA]] 1.6 [[Inline-four engine|L4]]
| [[1969 Race of Champions|ROC]]
| [[1969 BRDC International Trophy|INT]]
|style="background:#efcfff;"| [[1969 Madrid Grand Prix|MAD]]<br />{{small|Ret}}
| [[1969 International Gold Cup|OUL]]
|<ref>{{cite web|title=Max Mosley: Involvement Non World Championship|url=https://www.statsf1.com/en/max-mosley/engagementhc.aspx|publisher=StatsF1|access-date=23 May 2021}}</ref>
|}

==Honours==
* Grande Ufficiale dell' Ordine al Merito (Italy) 1994<ref name="Who's Who" />
* [[Castrol]] Gold Medal from the Institute of Motor Industry in the year 2000.<ref name="Who's Who" />
* Order of Madarski Konnik, 1st degree (Bulgaria), 2000<ref name="Who's Who">{{cite web|title=MOSLEY, Max Rufus|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U28301/MOSLEY_Max_Rufus?index=1&results=QuicksearchResults&query=0|publisher=UK Who's Who}}</ref>
* Quattroruote Premio Speciale per la Sicurezza Stradale (Italy), 2001<ref name="Who's Who" />
* The Goldene VdM-Dieselring, 2001<ref name="Who's Who" />
* Order of Merit (Romania), 2004<ref name="Who's Who" />
* [[Northumbria University]] awarded Mosley an Honorary Doctorate of [[Civil law (legal system)|Civil Law]] in 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://northumbria.ac.uk/browse/ne/uninews/352045|publisher=Northumbria University|access-date=2 March 2008|date=22 July 2005|title=Honorary Degree is winning formula for Max |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080417002357/http://northumbria.ac.uk/browse/ne/uninews/352045 |archive-date = 17 April 2008}}</ref>
* Huespad Illustre do Quito (Ecuador), 2005.<ref name="Who's Who" />
* National Road Safety Council NGO, Armenia, 2005.<ref name="Who's Who" />
* France: Chevalier of the [[Legion of Honour|Légion d'honneur]] (2006)<ref>{{cite news|title=Honoured to the Max|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/505285715/|page=A46|date=2 February 2006|access-date=24 May 2020|newspaper=The Province|location=Vancouver}}</ref>
* Monaco: Commander of the [[Order of Saint-Charles]] (27 May 2006)<ref>Nomination by [http://www.legimonaco.mc/Dataweb/jourmon.nsf/100ab120e52ceb84c12568ce002f2909/e830e84ba593eb4fc1257181002ad432!OpenDocument Sovereign Ordonnance] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224111652/http://www.legimonaco.mc/Dataweb/jourmon.nsf/100ab120e52ceb84c12568ce002f2909/e830e84ba593eb4fc1257181002ad432!OpenDocument |date=24 February 2014 }} n° 526 of 27 May 2006 (French).</ref>

==Appointments==
* Secretary, Oxford Union Society, 1961<ref name="Who's Who" />
* 1964, Called to the Bar, Gray's Inn<ref name="Who's Who" />
* Director of March Cars, 1969–79<ref name="Who's Who" />
* Member of High Level Gp, CARS (Competitive Automotive Regulatory System for the 21st century) 21, 2005–09<ref name="Who's Who" />
* Patron at eSafety Aware, 2006–2009<ref name="Who's Who" />
* Member of the Board of Trustees, 2001–2014, Chairman of the Programmes Committee, 2001–2012, FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society<ref name="Who's Who" />
* Chairmanship of [[Euro NCAP]], Global NCAP, ERTICO<ref name="Who's Who" />
* Honorary President of European Parliament Automobile Users' Intergroup<ref name="Who's Who" />

== Explanatory notes ==
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|title = Life at the Limit: Triumph and Tragedy in Formula One
| publisher=Pan Books
| year = 1997
| isbn = 0-330-35139-7 }}
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===Newspapers===
*{{cite news
| last = Howell
| first = Norman
| title = Mosley optimistic in challenge to president of Fisa
|work=The Times |location=UK | date=9 October 1991 }}
*{{cite news
| last = Howell
| first = Norman
| title = Balestre deposed as Fisa president
|work=The Times |location=UK | date = 10 October 1991 }}
*{{cite news
| title = Union Movement choice for Moss Side
| page = 7
|work=The Times |location=UK | date = 26 September 1961 }} <!--Issue 55196; col A-->

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