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Life after the scandal: First interview with Max Mosley

After winning his lawsuit against the News of the World a fortnight ago, Max Mosley is shifting his focus back on to running the sport. Jonathan Noble hears from the FIA president about the affair and his plans for Formula One. The full interview

Q: Let's start with the unavoidable questions. The privacy action that you won - what do you think that the case did for your ability to do your job? And what did it do for F1?

Max Mosley: "It is obviously better to win than lose. But the key thing was winning the FIA confidence vote because if you are an elected official, if your electorate don't want you to continue, then you have to stop. Winning the case was good because it stopped all the nonsense about Nazism - that has now gone and that is the thing that really mattered. Now, as far as doing the job is concerned, with the Nazi thing out of the way, it will have no effect at all on me.

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Author Jonathan Noble

Jonathan Noble is Motorsport.com’s Formula 1 editor. Having graduated from University of Sussex Jonathan worked for sports news agency Collings Sports reporting on F1, F3, touring cars and other sports, with articles appearing in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, Autosport and other publications. In 1999 he moved to Haymarket Publishing to become a senior editor at Autosport Special Projects, and one year later he became Autosport’s grand prix editor. In 2015 he moved to Motorsport Network, becoming the F1 editor for Motorsport.com. He is also a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers, and sits on the FIA Media Council.