Mosley's words in the first interview after the scandal

Max Mosley wishes to complete his term as FIA president and not seek re-election beyond 2009. In an interview with Sunday Telegraph, the 68-year-old English lawyer defended everyone's right to have a private life, saying that in his case it had no effect on his professional commitment. Mosley also reaffirmed his willingness to pursue the newspaper in legal terms News of the World, for the "unlimited damages" resulting from the publication of what was defined as a sadomasochistic orgy with a Nazi background. His future, which will be defined on June 3 in Paris at an extraordinary meeting of the FIA ​​general assembly, was the first of the topics submitted to Mosley in what was the first interview given after the explosion of the scandal. “If the members of the Federation want me to continue, I will continue, otherwise I will leave, but in any case I will tell them that it has always been my intention not to go beyond the expiry of the mandate scheduled for 2009. The reason is very simple: if I leave next year, maybe I will still be able to do something else useful. Staying until I was 73 wouldn't have been possible."

On the lawfulness of one's sexual behaviour, Mosley instead stated: “Things that without harm to anyone, happen consensually between adults and in the right confidentiality, cannot interest anyone else other than the person doing it. I think this is what most adults think."

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