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person1969–2021

Max Moseley

Disciplines:
law
sports/sports governance
formula 1/formula 1 politics

Summary

British lawyer and motorsport executive who served as president of the FIA (Formula 1's governing body) from 1993 to 2009, working in partnership with Bernie Ecclestone to consolidate commercial and regulatory control of the sport.

Core Contribution

Served as the regulatory complement to Ecclestone's commercial power — controlling the FIA while Ecclestone controlled the commercial rights — creating a unified power structure over Formula 1 that no team or manufacturer could challenge.

Historical Influences

Bernie Ecclestone

Intellectual Lineage

British Legal TraditionMotorsport Governance

Contemporaries & Peers

Bernie Ecclestone Ron Dennis Frank Williams

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

FIA safety reforms

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