Comments on 'A Song for Max' on F1 Insight

Comment by Steven Roy

01/04/2008 17:02:44

It really is a shame that this weekend's race isn't in Europe or Australia where ther would be a big crowd with humourous banners. Max may be persona non grata his weekend but he is unlikely to see caricatures of himself trasmitted on worldwide television. Of course he will only get a short reprieve from that sort of publicity but it gives his lawyers time to work. I am sure I read on a website this morning that Woking Council are going to make the last Monday in March a local holiday in celebration of his embarrassment.

Comment by Clive

01/04/2008 17:35:25

That would be fitting indeed, Steven!

Comment by Marc

02/04/2008 00:53:45

So, you have something against the song Springtime for Hitler? I think it fits the occasion. To say nothing of Bernie's quotes of a couple months ago: “Everything has changed, hasn’t it? Racing has become one of the last well-behaved sports. There are not enough sex scandals.”

Comment by Clive

02/04/2008 01:09:26

Springtime for Hitler was a spoof song written for one of Mel Brooks' movies - being Jewish helped to get away with things like that. I thought Madness' Embarrassment was pretty appropriate, Marc, not least because the name of the group fits quite well with Max's nickname. The Bernie quote must be pretty embarrassing for him too - do you think it will teach him to think before he speaks in future?

Comment by Björn Svensson

02/04/2008 01:46:28

I have now taken my responsibility as a member of the European Union, and written a letter to the European Commission about my thoughts of what have to be done in the FIA. I hope that publishing it here will not do any harm. First of all, i would like to make it clear that i do not write this mail because of Max Moselys recent published private business. Even though that is a factor that put fuel on a fire that have grown in my brain for quite a while now. It is understood that this federation has gotten it's legitimacy through the European Union. But what i just cant understand is why such an organisation needs to be such enclosed club, that not even one singel private person has anything to say when it comes to it's preceedings and conduct. What i believe is that there's need for a drastic change in how long a president of the FIA can stay in his seat. And there also needs to be something done about how he ends up in that seat. As for the now ruling president of the FIA, Max Mosely, it has come to my attention that he and his family was closely in contact with Adolf Hitler, and that Adolf even was a witness on scene when Max got married. Even if this happened a long time before Max got elected to become president of the FIA, i think that no matter of what merit he may have got, just the fact that he have been connected to the head of the Nazist German goverment should be enough to not even alow him to enter the election. There must be someone who has a more suitable background, and has even more interest to rule the world of motorsport so it stays safe and secure. I am well aware that i'm not a politician, and have just as little insight in what is happening in the world of European politics. But i am deeply engaged in what is happening to my beloved sport of Formula One, and that sport has taken such a beating during the last years, so i'm just glad it is still up and running. There have been so many rulechanges, and added rules during the last few years so the teams and team-managers need whole armys of lawyers to interpret the FIA book of rules. I what way is this making the sport more cost efficient? Changes are needed, and that fast. Sincirely. Björn

Comment by Peter Boyle

02/04/2008 02:12:13

Max's PARENTs were married as guests of Hitler. Much as I loathe Max, I wouldn't hold this against him. He can't help his parentage. He can however help his conduct and judgement, and given the above and, worse, his father's leadership of the facist movement in the UK, it is extremely unsound judgement to role play SS uniforms and prisoners. I gave him the benefit of the doubt, on the assumption he might be a sane person who is repelled by all things Nazi, especially because of a tainted reputation since birth. However, recent news indicates he is attracted to all this. Instant dismissal required.

Comment by Clive

02/04/2008 02:24:35

Very impressive, Björn - I hope it has some effect. One small point: it was Max's father, Oswald, who was married in the presence of Hitler.

Comment by Clive

02/04/2008 02:31:27

I agree that Max's parents should not be relevant, Peter, unless he makes them relevant, of course. I think the F1 world has generally been quite sensitive in not mentioning such things, even when in disagreement with Max. But there is no doubt that he has to go after this affair.

Comment by peterg

02/04/2008 03:48:37

First visit to your blog, via dr vee. If it takes a lurid sex scandal from NOTW to rid motorsport of Mosley, then so be it. I'm convinced he is digging in only for an attempt at a pay- out from NOTW in a legal suit & will then retire. Let's hope he is ejected from office post haste.

Comment by Clive

02/04/2008 05:07:54

I think it's the first time I've seen your blog too, Peter - you do NASCAR as well! I agree that it hardly matters why Max goes at this point, he must just go. My fear is that he will hang on long enough to do even more damage.

Comment by Clive

02/04/2008 05:09:22

Oops, got you confused with Peter Boyle up there, Peter. Sorry about that.

Comment by Steven Roy

02/04/2008 09:43:12

It looks like we were right when we said threatening to sue the Sunday Times would bring Max's downfall. It's fine for Max to run his own little kangaroo court but you don't threaten Rupert Murdoch unless you are squeaky clea and Max has never been that. If we all thought his comments were stupid knowing what we knew you have to wonder how he could possibly have made them knowig what he knew. He must be totally deranged and out of contact with reality but I guess running your own private little fiefdom will do that every time.

Comment by Steven Roy

02/04/2008 12:38:08

For the last two hours I have had Peter Cook and Dudley Moore singing Goodbye in my head.

Comment by Clive

02/04/2008 12:58:14

Yup, Steven, it seems it's true that absolute power corrupts absolutely. And it was a monumental case of stupidity on Max's part - had he really been reading the blogs, he would have been able to see this kind of thing coming. People keep telling me how intelligent he is and what a fine lawyer but all I've been able to see is a petty little man drunk with power and using it to further his own agenda. Let's hope the "goodbye" is not long in coming.

Comment by Journeyer

02/04/2008 13:29:44

The way this is going, Max will probably dig in. If it was him in the vid (and his statement never denied it), he'll at least want Murdoch to go down with him. After all, at this point, what else does his have to lose? He's lost his dignity already and the job will follow suit. So might as well raise hell for someone else too.

Comment by Clive

02/04/2008 13:39:30

The word "meltdown" springs to mind, Journeyer...

Comment by Björn Svensson

03/04/2008 00:51:55

I apoplgise for mixing Max and his father, but i still think that one's childhood is important to take to think about, atleast when it is about the kind of work Max does. I can't say i have ever related any of his work-ethics or the way he submits rules or regulations to anything near fachistic or something sprung out of the mind of a nazi. But it is quite obvious in the recent happenings, that the old childplay never really leaves ones mind, and what you used to play when young still can be fun even when reaching a respectable age. Having a father such as Max's, must in some ways have formed him and have given him his values in life. It does to everyone else.

Comment by Clive

03/04/2008 02:27:36

Max was quite involved with his father's attempt to re-start his political career in the sixties, Björn, and then opted to go into law, following which he became interested in motor racing. He remained an admirer of his father, however, and fell out with an older brother who wrote a book arguing against their father. So there is no doubt he was influenced to some extent at least.

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