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Mosley urges critics to 'grow up'

FIA president Max Mosley insists "no grown-up person gives the slightest damn" about what he gets up to in his private life.

The 68-year-old won his privacy case against the News of the World last week and was awarded £60,000 in compensation after the newspaper made allegations about his private life in an article in March.

"The truth of the matter is this: that no grown-up person gives the slightest damn about what other people do in their sex lives. It's not even a subject for discussion," Mosley told Autosport magazine.

He added: "All these people who failed in Formula 1 - and Jackie Stewart fits into that category, although 40 years ago he was a brilliant driver - they sit on the outside offering advice, but no one seriously considers them."

The presiding judge in the case, Mr Justice Eady, said last week: "I found 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."

Mosley confirmed on Thursday that he plans to stand down as FIA president in October next year.

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