FIA president
Max Mosley 'has to go' that is the verdict of former
F1 team owner, Paul Stoddart.
Mosley has been under intense pressure following reports about his private life in British tabloid newspaper
The News of the World on Sunday, in which its was alleged that he took part in a 'sick Nazi orgy with five hookers' and now Stoddart has joined the likes of Mercedes,
BMW,
Honda and
Toyota in calling for the 67-year-old to resign.
Speaking to
BBC Sport Online the ex-Minardi F1 team boss added that there is no way he can carry on now as he just won't have any credibility.
"He has to go," Stoddart confirmed. "Anyone in public office cannot survive a scandal like this.
"Mosley is actually dragging the FIA down into the gutter and until he goes it will have no credibility. Part of his job is to meet with world leaders and already we have seen instances where people are refusing to meet him.
"You cannot hold a job which is an international job, a multi-million pound enterprise that deals at government level, if your own personal credibility is tarnished, as his now is."
Stoddart's comments echo those made by former F1 world champion Jody Scheckter earlier this week.
"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. I would like to see the press having a concerted campaign to persuade him to do just that."
