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AFP: F1 teams tight-lipped on Mosley sex scandal

Formula One’s team chiefs chose to remain tight-lipped after a meeting called to discuss the sex scandal surrounding FIA president Max Mosley on Saturday. All of the teams were represented at the meeting held at the Toyota team’s motor home where it is understood several leading team chiefs called for a joint statement to be issued on the controversy. The sport’s commercial ringmaster Bernie Ecclestone, who holds the commercial rights to Formula One, was also present. But after lengthy talks the teams failed to agree on any action. Mosley, the 68-year-old president of the sport’s ruling body, the Federation International de l’Automobile (FIA), has been battling to retain his post after a British Sunday newspaper The News of the World reported he had been involved in a sado-masochistic Nazi-style sex orgy with five prostitutes in London.