Formula One’s future was in turmoil on Friday after Ferrari, McLaren and six other teams announced plans for a rival series.
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/ 18 December 2008
A dramatic final race provided a thrilling ending to a Formula One season overshadowed by uncertain economic times and an embarrassing sex scandal.
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/ 11 December 2008
Formula One teams and world motorsport governing body the FIA reached agreement on Wednesday over radically reducing costs.
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/ 6 December 2008
Honda could trigger a domino effect of manufacturers toppling out of Formula One unless costs are slashed dramatically, FIA president Max Mosley says.
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/ 20 October 2008
In his first newspaper interview since his high court victory, Max Mosley tells why he’ll never change his sexual habits.
Formula One chief Max Mosley defended his bondage romp with five prostitutes in an interview with Gazetta dello Sport on Wednesday.
Max Mosley says he is considering taking libel and legal action against media outlets across Europe over reports of an orgy he took part in.
Motorsport chief Max Mosley won his privacy case on Thursday against a UK newspaper that alleged he took part in a Nazi-themed sadomasochistic orgy.
A star defence witness failed to turn up in a privacy case involving sadomasochistic sex and the head of world motor racing on Thursday.
Motor racing chief Max Mosley launched legal action against a British tabloid newspaper on Monday, denying involvement in a ”sick Nazi orgy”.
Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has apparently broached the possibility of forming a breakaway series in the wake of the sex scandal involving FIA president Max Mosley.
Max Mosley will remain president of Formula One’s governing body, the FIA, after winning a vote of confidence on Tuesday from its members following his involvement in a sado-masochist sex scandal. FIA announced that Mosley had won 103 of 169 votes cast during an extraordinary general assembly at FIA headquarters in Paris.
World champion Kimi Raikkonen believes his Ferrari team are set to cement their recent resurgence by winning this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix. As Formula One continues to reel from the controversy surrounding a sex scandal involving Max Mosley the leading teams have all upgraded their cars in preparation for the start of the ”European” season.
Brazilian Felipe Massa stormed to victory on Sunday for his second successive victory in the Bahrain Grand Prix and answered his mounting bank of critics as his Ferrari team celebrated a comfortable one-two with Kimi Raikkonen finishing second.
Leading German car manufacturers Mercedes-Benz and BMW issued a statement on Thursday slamming the alleged recent lurid behaviour of world motorsport governing body (FIA) president Max Mosley as ”disgraceful”. Both companies, with teams set to take part in this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix, distanced themselves from the revelations about Mosley’s private life.
Max Mosley, president of world motorsport’s governing body (FIA), claimed on Tuesday that he had been the victim of a covert surveillance operation orchestrated by unknown enemies of his so as to force him to resign his post. However, the 67-year-old son of pre-World War II British fascist leader Oswald Mosley insisted that he would not step down.
Max Mosley, president of motorsports’ governing body FIA, is under pressure after a British tabloid reported on Sunday that he engaged in sex acts with prostitutes that involved Nazi role- playing. The News of the World reported that Mosley (67) paid five sex workers £2 500 in cash and then engaged in an orgy that lasted almost five hours.
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/ 14 December 2007
Formula One team McLaren on Thursday issued a public apology over their role in the spying saga that rocked the world championship this year. ”As a result of the investigations carried out by the FIA it has become clear that Ferrari information was more widely disseminated within McLaren than was previously communicated,” said a statement.
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/ 15 September 2007
The rivalry between McLaren Formula One drivers Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso reached such a pitch that the Spanish world champion threatened to reveal damaging data obtained illegally from Ferrari to the sport’s governing body unless he was made the team’s official number one driver, it was alleged on Friday.
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/ 13 September 2007
Formula One leaders McLaren have been stripped of all their 2007 constructors’ points and fined -million in a spying controversy involving Ferrari information. However, the governing FIA ruled that Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso could keep their points in the drivers’ contest.