Jody Scheckter has called for a media campaign to force
Max Mosley to step down from his post as
FIA President, following the allegations published in a tabloid newspaper about him partaking in a ‘Nazi-style' sado-masochistic orgy with five prostitutes in an underground ‘torture chamber' in Chelsea last week.
The
News of the World led its coverage on Sunday with a front page headline ‘
F1 boss Max Mosley has sick Nazi orgy with 5 hookers', and subsequently posted a video on its website.
The backlash was instant, and one of the figures most adamant there was no way back for the 67-year-old – who has held the role as head of motorsport's governing body since 1993 – is 1979 world champion Scheckter, a man of Jewish origins. Mosley's late father Oswald was the founder of the pre-war British Union of Fascists in the 1930s and a friend of Adolf Hitler, and the £2,500, five-hour experience in which the
News of the World claimed his son participated included re-enacting concentration camp scenes in which girls wearing mock death camp uniforms were repeatedly whipped by commandants clad in Nazi war uniforms and barking orders in German.
“There is absolutely no question in my mind that Mosley should resign,” the South African told
The Guardian. “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. I really think he ought to go and I would like to see the press having a concerted campaign to persuade him to do just that.”
