Ferrari boss wants Mosley to quit

ROME: Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo said on Wednesday that Max Mosley should quit as chief of motor racing’s world governing body over his involvement in a sex scandal.

“I think that he should realise that sometimes it is necessary to say to yourself I have to leave for reasons of credibility,” Montezemolo said. Mosley was given a strong vote of confidence to remain as president on Tuesday, gaining 103 votes to 55 against in a secret ballot at an extraordinary meeting of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) general assembly in Paris.

The 68-year-old Briton has ignored calls to quit since March when the tabloid News of the World newspaper published details and photographs of his involvement in what was described as a Nazi-style sado-masochistic orgy with prostitutes. The FIA president has denied any Nazi connotations to the scandal.