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Max Mosley is (as of July 2009) the president of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the governing body for Formula 1 racing and various other international motor-sports. Once a qualified barrister, Mosley turned his interest to car racing in the 1960s and in 1969 co-founded and co-owned F1 racing team March Engineering. In 1993 Mosley became president of the FIA, and has been an advocate for increased driver safety and the increased usage of ‘green’ technologies in racing. In 2008, Mosley was the subject of widespread controversy after unorthodox details of his sex life were published by the News of the World newspaper. On the 24th of June 2009, Mosley announced that he would not run for re-election as FIA president.

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Facts
Mosley is the son of Sir Oswald Mosley, who was famous for founding the British Union of Fascists, and trying to keep Britain out of a war with Nazi Germany
Mosley lives in the Principality of Monaco with his wife Jean. The couple had two children, the elder of which, Alexander, was found dead in 2009 at the age of 39 as a result of cocaine intoxication
According to Mosley, part of his initial attraction to the world of racing was that unlike law, nobody connected his name with that of his controversial father, and so was able to interact with people without the same social stigma.
Mosley was educated at an early age in France, Germany and Britain, before attending university at Christ Church college, Oxford where he studied physics
In 2009, the new rules format set forth by the FIA was objected to by members of the Formula One Teams Association, and there were threats from some teams to break away and form an alternate Formula One series. This eventually led to Mosley agreeing not to run for re-election for the 2010 season, in order to maintain the unity of the sport

Links
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Mosley

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