LONDON: Former motor racing boss and privacy campaigner Max Mosley died of a gunshot wound in the bedroom of his London home last May after being told his cancer was terminal, an inquest heard on Tuesday .
British media said the remote inquest at Westminster Coroner's Court revealed Mosley had been informed he had only weeks to live. The inquest heard Mosley told his long-time personal assistant Henry Alexander a day earlier that he intended to take his own life.Mosley became president of the International Automobile Federation , Formula One's governing body, in 1993. He stayed in office for 16 years.