LONDON – Max Mosley, the former president of motorsport’s world governing body the FIA, has died aged 81, ex-Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone announced on Monday.
Mosley became FIA president in 1993 after serving in previous administrative roles in the sport, including within Formula One.
The former racing driver, who had been suffering from cancer, served three terms as president before standing down in 2009.
Ecclestone told the PA news agency: “Max was like family to me. We were like brothers. I am pleased in a way because he suffered for too long.”
Mosley was the son of 1930s British fascist leader Oswald Mosley.
In 2008 he won a privacy case against the now-defunct News of the World newspaper after it printed photographs and published video of his…
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