Max Mosley has attempted to gatecrash Ferrari’s 800th Grand prix celebrations by accusing them of attempting to fix the results of FIA hearings.
Mosley, who stepped down from the role of FIA President last year, accused Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo of trying to peruade the FIA to swing the results in favour of the Italian team.
Most recently at the start of 2009 when the double-diffuser row erupted.
“Luca does have this silly idea that if it is Ferrari then it is okay,” Mosley told the Daily Mail.
“When we had all this stuff about the double-diffuser he was on the phone every day saying, ‘You have got to sort out the Court of Appeal and make sure we win’.
“He didn’t put it as baldly as that but that is what he said. I said, ‘Luca, I’m sorry but first of all they wouldn’t take any notice and secondly I am not going to do it’. Icouldn’t.
“He took that quite personally. He honestly thought I would.”
Mosley also spoke about the barge board incident of the 1999 Malaysian GP when Micheal Schumacher and Eddie Irvine were disqualified.
“Ferrari won that appeal quite rightly on the technicality,” Mosley explained.
“Two years later I was at the Turin Motor Show and I was invited into a little area where the Fiat [Ferrari’s parent company] people were and Gianni Agnelli [Fiat owner] himself came up to me.
“He said, ‘Thank you so much for what you did over the barge boards’.
“He honestly thought it had been fixed.”
Ferrari haven’t commented on the accusations, simply saying: “We don’t want to make any comment. It is better to look ahead and not waste time talking about what is – luckily – old and gone.”
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