Max Mosley, motorsport executive who helped turn Formula One into a global spectacle, dies at 81

Max Mosley, the son of England’s two most notorious fascist leaders who forged his own legacy leading the international governing body of motorsports and successfully battled a British tabloid after he was secretly filmed at a sex party involving Nazi-style costumes, died May 23 at 81.

His friend Bernie Ecclestone, who for many years ran Formula One racing within the International Automobile Federation, known by its French initials FIA, announced the death on Twitter. A family statement said the cause was cancer. No further information was available.