With the
News of the World vowing to send to the FIA a DVD copy of the ‘sex tape' the paper claims implicates
Max Mosley in a ‘sick Nazi orgy with 5 hookers', former
Formula 1 team boss Paul Stoddart has insisted: ‘This a**hole has got to go'.
The outspoken Australian – who ran the Minardi team from 2001 to 2005 – has frequently come to verbal blows with Mosley in the past, and blames the beleagured FIA President for keeping him away from the sport ever since. Whilst advising Spain's King Juan Carlos to follow the Bahraini Royal Family's lead in shunning the 67-year-old ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix at the end of the month, Stoddart expressed his firm conviction that Mosley had brought
F1 into disrepute with the revelations and as such must be removed from his post in no uncertain terms.
“This a**hole has got to go for the sake of the sport,” he told the
Weekend Australian newspaper. “His position as head of Formula 1 – which boasts 181 member bodies – has become totally untenable following the publication of the photographs in the British media.
“Is it any wonder he wasn't welcomed in Bahrain? Nor do I think Spain's King Juan Carlos should extend him the welcome mat at the next race in Barcelona in three weeks' time.
“There is absolutely no question in my mind that Mosley must go. Only then will I come back to the sport as a team owner.”
Mosley has called an Extraordinary General Assembly of the Senate, which will be held in the
FIA's home of Paris at the earliest available date, though possibly not until July. There, ten members of the sport's governing body – who are believed to be on the list to receive the incriminating DVD – will have the opportunity to discuss the future of the man who has held the role as FIA President since 1993.
