Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile

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...