Defiant Mosley's future to be put to the ballot in June

MAX Mosley has eight weeks in which to prepare his defence ahead of a general assembly of the FIA which could decide his future.

Mosley's presidency of the FIA is to be decided on 3 June when a vote of confidence, via a secret ballot, will be held.

The news came on a day when Mosley failed to gain an injunction against the News of the World to prevent the Sunday tabloid from continuing to run a video in which he is engaged in lurid activities.

But Mosley is prepared to brazenly fight on for the next two months, a time frame that has already led to criticism from three-times former Formula 1 world champion Sir Jackie Stewart.

"For the reputation of the sport, it's too far away, unrealistic," Stewart said. "It means until it happens there will be destabilising influences with regard to the reputation of the FIA and associated bodies.

"When you hear the Americans, Germans, Dutch, Israelis, along with BMW, Mercedes, Honda and Toyota, having their say, it is difficult for me to see how the reputation of the FIA is being upheld.

"He is being very blind to the realism of the act in which he was involved."