Apr.1 (GMM) Max Mosley looks set to cancel a planned visit to Bahrain this week.



A British tabloid newspaper at the weekend revealed secret video footage of the FIA president engaged in a Nazi death camp-themed orgy with five prostitutes.



He is now the subject of intense global media intrigue, but until now it appeared that he was vehemently sticking with his plan to travel to Bahrain for a rare appearance at a grand prix.



The first Middle Eastern Motor Sport Business Forum is also taking place on the island Kingdom this week.



68-year-old Mosley's decision to cancel the trip might have been influenced by his fellow F1 powerbroker and long time friend Bernie Ecclestone.



"He shouldn't go, should he?" the F1 chief executive is quoted as saying by the German news agency DPA.



"The problem is he would take all the ink away from the race and put it on something which, honestly and truly, is nobody else's business anyway," he added.



Ecclestone also said the Bahrain royal family might object to the presence of embattled Mosley, the son of the notorious British fascist politician Sir Oswald Mosley.



"They wouldn't like it," the 77-year-old admitted.