Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile
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The Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile (FISA) was the governing body
Sport governing body
A sport governing body is a sports organization that has a regulatory or sanctioning function. Sport governing bodies come in various forms, and have a variety of regulatory functions. Examples of this can include disciplinary action for rule infractions and deciding on rule changes in the sport...

 for motor racing events. The organisation's origins date from 1922, when the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile
Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile
The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile is a non-profit association established as the Association Internationale des Automobile Clubs Reconnus on 20 June 1904 to represent the interests of motoring organisations and motor car users...

 (FIA) delegated the organisation of automobile racing to the CSI (Commission Sportive Internationale de la FIA), an autonomous committee that would later become the FISA.

A restructuring of the FIA in 1993 led to the disappearance of the FISA, putting motor racing under direct management of the FIA.

Presidents

President Years as president
Commission Sportive Internationale
  Rene de Knyff
René de Knyff
Chevalier René de Knyff was a French pioneer of car racing and later a president of Commission Sportive Internationale , now known as FIA....

1922–1946
  Augustin Perouse 1946–1961
  Maurice Baumgartner 1961–1970
  Paul Metternich 1970–1976
  Pierre Ugeux 1976–1978
Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile
  Jean-Marie Balestre
Jean-Marie Balestre
Jean-Marie Balestre was a French auto racing executive, who was president of FISA from 1978 to 1991 and of the FIA from 1985 to 1993.-Biography:Balestre was born at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône....

1978–1991
Max Mosley
Max Mosley
Max Rufus Mosley is the former president of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile , a non-profit association that represents the interests of motoring organisations and car users worldwide...

1991–1993

See also

  • FISA-FOCA war
    FISA-FOCA war
    The FISA–FOCA war was a political battle contested throughout the early 1980s by the two representative organizations in Formula One motor racing, the Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile and the Formula One Constructors Association...

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