Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile

The Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile ( FISA ) was from 1970 to 1993, the sports authority within the automotive world federation Fédération Internationale de l' Automobile ( FIA) and was responsible for the sporting regulations in the automotive motor sport (the FIA rules, for example, for the formula 1 or Group C) responsible. The FISA was as Commission Sportive Internationale ( CSI), founded in 1922 by the then FIA predecessor Association Internationale des Automobile Clubs Reconnus ( AIACR ), and renamed in 1970 FISA. In 1993, the FISA lost its independence and became part of the FIA.

FISA, under its then President Jean -Marie Balestre, in the late 1970s is delivered to the mid-1980s a bitter power struggle with the Formula 1 teams respectively Bernie Ecclestone, the boss of Team Association FOCA. However, its lawyer Max Mosley was able to prevail against Balestre, followed by the new president of FISA and, until October 2009, President of the FIA.

• Motorsports Association
• Formula 1
• Former Sports Association
• International Sports Federation