THE build-up to yesterday's Bahrain Grand Prix was overshadowed by a man who was not even at the circuit - Max Mosley. The president of the sport's ruling body, the International Motoring Federation (FIA) was the hot topic of gossip again.
Another extraordinary series of lurid allegations about Mosley's private life in the News of the World made clear that the newspaper was not backing away from its claims that the 67-year-old Briton was involved in a Nazi-style perverted orgy with five prostitutes in London nine days earlier.