Architects of F1 - Max Mosley

Having fallen in love with motorsport by chance when his wife was given tickets to the British Grand Prix, the then law student could not have envisaged the role he would play in shaping modern-day Formula 1.

Concurrently, however, F1 was changing in ways that could only bring resentment, or worse. Ecclestone's power was a sticking point for some team owners in negotiations for a renewed Concorde Agreement in 1997 while Mosley's decision three years later to lease the commercial rights to his ally for a period of 100 years came amidst an argument with the European Commission about whether competition laws had been broken. Away from the courtroom, the manufacturers who returned to the sport in the early noughties threatened a breakaway series and the same spectre was realised towards the end of Mosley's presidency in 2009 when, as the same car companies started pulling out of F1 in the wake of the global financial crisis, he tried to force through a budget cap. In between times, Mosley presided over the $100million fine meted out to McLaren following 2007's 'Spygate' controversy and became infamous the following year as a result of a News of the World's expose about his private life. Mosley survived a subsequent FIA vote of confidence - with the furore since inspiring his emergence as a campaigner for greater press regulation - but he was gone from F1 the following year. Not that he went quietly: amid criticism of his leadership style and a perception that the FIA's governance lacked transparency, Mosley briefly threatened to stand for a fifth term of office. It did not come to pass, however, and under his successor Jean Todt, the governing body has consciously adopted a more low-key approach. Mosley, meanwhile, has taken his battles elsewhere - and taken the headlines with him.