Hmmm... is this for real!?
I hope it's just a bad 4/1 joke. But if it's not... oh my!!
Auto chief Max Mosley shadowed by scandal, in doubt for Bahrain GP
By PAUL LOGOTHETIS, AP Auto Racing Writer
4/1/2008
The president of auto racing’s governing body might not attend the Bahrain Grand Prix following a story in a British tabloid that accused him of engaging in sex acts with five prostitutes that involved Nazi role-playing.
Max Mosley, the president of FIA, also was to join the Bahraini Royal Family for a formal dinner. But those plans are in doubt following the News of the World report.
Formula One chief executive Bernie Ecclestone urged Mosley to skip the race. Jody Scheckter, the 1979 world champion, called for the 67-year-old Mosley to resign.
“Mr. Mosley was originally scheduled to arrive in Bahrain, but FIA is not aware of his travel plans,” FIA said Tuesday in a statement to The Associated Press. “Mr. Mosley has been busy holding discussions with lawyers and has not communicated his latest plans to us.”
A video posted Sunday on the News of the World’s Web site showed a man identified as Mosley arriving at an apartment and then taking part in sex acts with women, one in a prisoner’s uniform, while also speaking German. The video can no longer be found on the paper’s Web site.
“He shouldn’t go, should he?” Ecclestone told The Times of London. “The problem is he would take all the ink away from the race and put it on something which, honestly and truly, is nobody else’s business anyway.”
Scheckter said Mosley should step down before the president’s fourth term ends in October 2009.
“There is absolutely no question in my mind that Mosley should resign,” the former South African driver told The Guardian newspaper. “From a purely motor racing point of view you can’t have somebody like this running the sport or any other sport come to that.”
Mosley is the son of British Union of Fascists party founder Oswald Mosley, a former British politician who served in Parliament for both the Labour and Conservative parties. Oswald Mosley died in 1980.