Following on from his threat to back out last week’s decision to retire from his role as President of the FIA, Max Mosley gave an in-depth interview on the current situation to the Daily Mail, explaining that because of the challenge now laid down by Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo, claiming that FOTA had ousted the Englishman from his job, he is coming under increasing pressure to sit for another term.

"They made the mistake of dancing on my grave before I was buried," he said. "It's no good the teams getting a PR agency to claim I am dead and buried when I am standing here as large as life. I am under pressure now from all over the world to stand for re-election.”

“I don’t actually want to. I feel I am a little bit too old. Generally when you have done something for 16 years as I have done, it’s about time to stop. You get a little bit stale. I do genuinely want to stop. But if there is going to be a big conflict with the car industry, for example, with the FOTA teams, then I won't stop. I will do whatever I have to do. It's not in my nature to walk away from a fight."

Montezemolo has also called Mosley a dictator in his dealings with the Formula One championship, a dictator whose reign has now been brought to an end by the recent threat of FOTA breaking away from the FIA Formula One series and subsequent pacification of the World Council.

However, according to Mosley, the Ferrari boss has no idea of the real situation....

"By going home to Italy and telling the Italian media that they had toppled the dictator, di Montezemolo has tried to make it sound like I sit here and just decide what's going to happen," Mosley said. "It's absolutely not true. I can’t do anything unless the WMSC agree and there are 26 members, mostly Presidents if important motor sport clubs from all over the world. All these rules that I am supposed to have dictated have been voted on by those people. To say that I run a dictatorship is nonsense."

Mosley has demanded an apology for the comments made last week, however the weekend is now over and no such apology has been forthcoming.