FIA president Max Mosley insists "no grown-up person gives the slightest damn" about what he gets up to in his private life.
The 68-year-old won his privacy case against the News of the World last week and was awarded Ј60,000 in compensation after the newspaper had accused him of taking part in a "Nazi orgy" with five prostitutes in an article in March.
Mosley did not dispute taking part in the sadomasochistic role-play at a rented Chelsea basement flat, but said it was consensual and private and strenuously denied any Nazi overtones.
The presiding judge in the case, Mr Justice Eady, said last week: "I found there was no evidence that the gathering on 28 March 2008 was intended to be an enactment of Nazi behaviour or adoption of any of its attitudes."
But Mosley still faces calls to quit his post following the revelations about his private life, but he insists it should have no bearing on his role at the FIA and urged his critics to "grow up".
"The truth of the matter is this: that no grown-up person gives the slightest damn about what other people do in their sex lives. It's not even a subject for discussion," he told Autosport magazine.
"All these people who failed in Formula 1 - and Jackie Stewart fits into that category, although 40 years ago he was a brilliant driver - they sit on the outside offering advice, but no one seriously considers them.
"Winning the case was good because it stopped all the nonsense about Nazism - that's the thing that really mattered. Now, as far as doing the job is concerned, the Nazi thing will have no effect at all on me."
Mosley, who confirmed yesterday that he plans to stand down as FIA president in October next year, still believes the News of the World story was a set-up instigated by a third party.
"I think there is a strong probability that the News of the World did not just chance on it," he added.
"That is being investigated very carefully and in great detail at the moment, and sooner or later we will know exactly what happened."
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