Moreover, he is currently pursuing legal action against the
News of the World, seeking ‘unlimited damages' for a breach of privacy. He won an injunction against the Sunday tabloid to prevent it from re-using the same photographs and videos from its March 30 edition when it published a follow-up feature the following week.
“I am no saint,” Stuck told German newspaper
Bild, “and each person can do with his personal life what he wishes, but Mosley is the leader of the
FIA. He is a role model for young people.
“You know, [German chancellor] Angela Merkel and [former chancellor] Gerhard Schroder can't leap around on a nudist beach either. [Mosley] has missed doing the right thing, which was to quickly resign. What he is doing now, I cannot understand.”
After the American Automobile Association sought to distance itself from the growing crisis, meanwhile, three other national motoring organisations have similarly moved to express their distaste over the revelations.
Canadian Automobile Association president Tim Shearman is believed to have written to Mosley asking for his resignation, whilst his Austrian equivalent Hans Peter Halouska – secretary general of the Osterreichische Automobil, Motorrad und Touring Club, Austria's motor racing federation – admitted that he fears “that it will now be difficult for Mosley to exercise his duties”, speaking to the
Vorarlberger Nachrichten newspaper.
More significantly still, it has emerged that the New Zealand Automobile Association has withdrawn an invitation to Mosley to visit the country to participate in a transport and environment summit in June. He was already forced to miss the Bahrain Grand Prix last weekend after the country's royal family requested he stay away.
“I wrote to him late last week suggesting it might not be possible under the circumstances,” spokesman Greg Hunting told
Radio New Zealand. “On the same day I received a note from him saying he regretted not being able to attend.”
