Pressure on motoring boss Mosley to quit increases

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2008

BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Bernie Ecclestone made clear at the Spanish Grand Prix that he backs calls for embattled Max Mosley to quit as president of the International Automobile Federation (FIA), the ruling body of world motor sport.

And this latest push to see 68-year-old Briton Mosley resign, following a sex scandal, was followed Monday by further calls for him to step down led by Scotland's former world champion driver Jackie Stewart.

Stewart, a three-times winner of the Formula One drivers world championship, said he believed it was "impossible" for Mosley to continue as the head of world motor sport following reports that he took part in a Nazi-style sado-masochistic sex orgy with prostitutes.

"He's gone beyond anything they would tolerate," said...

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