Lewis Jones

The raffish toff with a winning Formula

Mosley’s autobiography ranges through Formula One, the Nazis, Labour politics, and an S&M orgy — to accusing a former Archbishop of Canterbury of ‘living off immoral earnings’

issue 04 July 2015

Max Mosley’s autobiography has been much anticipated: by the motor racing world, by the writers and readers of tabloid newspapers, by social historians, and by lawyers, whom one imagines perusing it with nods, frowns and the occasional wince.

Mosley is a barrister of Gray’s Inn, and it was as a lawyer that, with his friend Bernie Ecclestone, he came to dominate motor racing.

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