Though his attention is now focussed on the media, Max Mosley still keeps a watching eye on the sport he helped build. The barrister and racer who went on to help create March, which was to build race cars for numerous series including F1, became legal advisor to the Formula One Constructors Association (FOCA) in the late 70s. Ironically, FOCA, which was led by Bernie Ecclestone, was created to represent the commercial interests of the teams in their dealings with the FIA. The street-fighting former second-hand car salesman Ecclestone and the urbane, Oxford educated Mosley, became a formidable partnership, seeing off the challenge of the grandee teams in the FISA-FOCA war and in time...
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