Interestingly, on that same committee sits the controversial Max Mosley, a former president of the FIA. Mosley, whose father Sir Oswald Mosley was a Nazi sympathizer and leader of the British Union of Fascists, was caught on hidden camera having a sado-masoquistic orgy in which prostitutes pretended to be concentration camp detainees in what seemed to be Nazi role-playing.

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Mosley, the son of former British Union of Fascists leader Oswald Mosley, has been FIA president since 1993.

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The 67-year-old, the son of former British Union of Fascists leader Oswald Mosley, has been FIA president since 1993.

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