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| '''Max Mosley''' is currently serving his third term as president of the FIA, ]. Mosley has announced that he will resign at the end of the current season. | '''Max Mosley''' is currently serving his third term as president of the FIA, ]. Mosley has announced that he will resign at the end of the current season. | ||
| Mr. Mosley is the son of the British ] leader Sir ] and actress ]. He attended Christ Church College at ], graduating with a degree in physics in 1961; he studied law at Grays Inn in London and qualified as a solicitor in 1964. He raced throughout the 1960s for the London Racing Team and later with ]'s Formula 2 team. He retired from driving in 1969 and went into ] car production. This gave him little success. | Mr. Mosley is the son of the British ] leader Sir ] and actress ]. He attended Christ Church College at ], graduating with a degree in physics in 1961; he studied law at Grays Inn in London and qualified as a solicitor in 1964. He raced throughout the 1960s for the London Racing Team and later with ]'s Formula 2 team. He retired from driving in 1969 and went into ] car production. This gave him little success. | ||
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Max Mosley is currently serving his third term as president of the FIA, Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. Mosley has announced that he will resign at the end of the current season.
Mr. Mosley is the son of the British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley and actress Diana Mitford. He attended Christ Church College at Oxford, graduating with a degree in physics in 1961; he studied law at Grays Inn in London and qualified as a solicitor in 1964. He raced throughout the 1960s for the London Racing Team and later with Frank Williams's Formula 2 team. He retired from driving in 1969 and went into Formula One car production. This gave him little success.
In the early 1970s he became involved with FOCA, the Formula One Constructors Association, a union of teams created to defend the teams' rights and maintain their collective control of the sport. At the end of 1977 Mosley officially withdrew from constructing and became legal adviser to FOCA and served on the FISA F1 Commission (Federation International du Sport Automobile, which later became the FIA, of which Mosley is currently the president).
Bernie Ecclestone was at the time the president of FOCA; Jean Marie Balestre was president of FISA. The two clashed repeatedly over various regulation issues and eventually fought for control of the sport. Mosley helped resolve this debate by drawing up the Concorde Agreement, which gave FISA control of the rules and FOCA control of promotion and television rights.
Shortly thereafter Mosley disappeared entirely from Formula 1 for three years but returned in 1986, becoming president of the FISA Manufacturer's Commission and establishing the Simtek Research constructor, which met with little success.
He sold out his share of Simtek in 1991 when he was elected president of FISA, deposing Jean Marie Balestre 43 votes to 29. He resigned a year later, stating that he would rather be elected on his own merits than the mistakes of his predecessor. FISA immediately re-elected him for a four-year term. He was elected to his second term in October 1997 and his third in 2001.
Mosley and Bernie Ecclestone retain almost complete authority over Formula One racing; the FIA currently regulates the Formula 1 World Championship, the World Rally Championship, the Formula 3000 International Championship, the GT Championship, the CIK-FIA Carting World Championship, etc.
Mosley for a time was interested in becoming a Conservative MP, although in protest at that party's Eurosceptic direction (like his father Max Mosley is a keen pro-European) he has now become one of the major funders of the Labour Party.