Max Mosley opens a can of worms.

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16th July 2008, 08:36
MAX_THRUST

What is he trying to do??????

Headlines like HAnky SPanky, on the BBC website......Oh this must be great for the FIA, no wonder no one wants to work with him any more.

Could he actually destroy the FIA as he looses more and more control of his sanity.
16th July 2008, 09:15
Knock-on

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Originally Posted by tamburello

They are intricately linked in your head.

Others with less of an axe to grind can see the difference between Max Mosley the private individual & Max Mosley in his role of FIA president.

I await your evidence that his case is being financed by the FIA.

I hope your evidence is going to be better than your fellow mud-slingers at the News of the World.

I think that Arrows has answered your request for me.

:D
16th July 2008, 09:25
Knock-on

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Originally Posted by MAX_THRUST

What is he trying to do??????

Headlines like HAnky SPanky, on the BBC website......Oh this must be great for the FIA, no wonder no one wants to work with him any more.

Could he actually destroy the FIA as he looses more and more control of his sanity.

I think there may well be a danger that the credibility of the FIA may not recover from this.

Lets just confirm things for the likes of Tamburello that fail to be objective and look at the bigger picture.

I don't really give a Monkeys what Max gets up to in his private life. It's private and as I have said before on this forum, it was an invasion of his privacy and he will probably win his court case.

When this blew up, he should of announced that he was standing down to clear his name, appointed someone to deputise for him and launched a private prosocution to skin the NotW alive.

He would have cleared his name, the FIA wouldn't have been dragged through the mire, the publicity would have evaporated much quicker, there would have been no FIA vote, the largest Automobile Associations would not have had their noses pushed out of joint, he would not have been persona non gratis around the world and he could have stepped back into the driving seat with the FIA.

Instead, we know what has happened.
16th July 2008, 09:39
Dave B

Even Channel 4's 8 Out Of 10 Cats spent a few minutes mocking Mosley and F1 in general this week, a programme which normally ignores anything not directly related to celebrities or Big Brother. It's got comparatively poor viewing figures but it does nothing to help the image of the FIA or the sport in general.
16th July 2008, 09:54
BDunnell

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Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1

As the FIA President Max does not exist in a bubble. He is a public figure and he has accepted that as a trustee of the FIA, he had a formal duty to avoid any appearance of improper behaviour.

But he has never been a role model to anyone, is not guilty of hypocrisy in this instance, and there should be no reason why public figures should have to subscribe to a higher moral code than you or I. In any case, what are the norms of behaviour to which we should all subscribe?
16th July 2008, 10:12
ioan

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Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1

Why did Max take the NOTW to court in France? Simply because the headquarters of the FIA is in France. Why is that relevant if this is "a case of a private individual seeking damages"?

Or maybe because he has the right to take them to court in any EU country he wants?!
Or is it because the French court are not as permissive as the UK ones in such cases?!

And I think there are many other reasons having more to do with the legal systemm than with the FIA.

However as long as the case isn't called the "FIA against NOTW" it is all about Max Mosley and no one else being involved in it.
16th July 2008, 10:17
SGWilko

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Originally Posted by Dave Brockman

Even Channel 4's 8 Out Of 10 Cats spent a few minutes mocking Mosley and F1 in general this week, a programme which normally ignores anything not directly related to celebrities or Big Brother. It's got comparatively poor viewing figures but it does nothing to help the image of the FIA or the sport in general.

The BBC are in on the act now - Fiona Bruce smacked Clarksons Harris on Top Gear (SIARPC) and he said he felt like Max Mosely!!! ;)
16th July 2008, 10:25
BDunnell

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Originally Posted by ioan

However as long as the case isn't called the "FIA against NOTW" it is all about Max Mosley and no one else being involved in it.

I agree. Most people won't make the association. If the FIA is stumping up any of his legal funds, it's wrong and it shouldn't happen. But I have seen no evidence that it is.
16th July 2008, 10:39
ioan

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Originally Posted by Dave Brockman

Even Channel 4's 8 Out Of 10 Cats spent a few minutes mocking Mosley and F1 in general this week, a programme which normally ignores anything not directly related to celebrities or Big Brother. It's got comparatively poor viewing figures but it does nothing to help the image of the FIA or the sport in general.

:rolleyes:
16th July 2008, 11:17
ArrowsFA1

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Originally Posted by Knock-on

I don't really give a Monkeys what Max gets up to in his private life. It's private and as I have said before on this forum, it was an invasion of his privacy and he will probably win his court case.

And rightly so :up:

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

But he has never been a role model to anyone, is not guilty of hypocrisy in this instance, and there should be no reason why public figures should have to subscribe to a higher moral code than you or I.

Max Mosley has accepted that as a trustee of the FIA, he had a formal duty to avoid any appearance of improper behaviour. That's Max saying that, not anyone on this forum.

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Originally Posted by ioan

And I think there are many other reasons having more to do with the legal system than with the FIA.

Perhaps, but the one his lawyer gave was that FIA headquarters are in Paris so, again, why is that relevant if this is "a case of a private individual seeking damages"?

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