Former FIA president Max Mosley believes the salaries of leading Formula One drivers are “absurd” and teams should face up to more equal distribution of financial resources.
Mosley, who served four terms at the head of the sport’s governing body from 1993 to 2009, continues to champion calls for teams to limit budgets to 100 million US dollars (£65million) per year.
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In an exclusive interview with GQ’s Alistair Campbell, Mosley hit out at the amount spent on the pay cheques for leading drivers.
“It is absurd,” he told the magazine.
“If I was a dictator in the sport, each team would have the same money and you could spend more on the driver or less on the car or vice versa. All the driver worries about is what he earns compared with the other guy.”
Mosley also feels F1 has made great strides in becoming a safer sport for all involved.
“The conventional wisdom was if you made it safe fewer people would watch. The opposite has happened,” he said.
“The reason I care about the safety is because I have seen the consequences. A terrorist incident that kills 10 people is a massive story. Until recently, 10 people were killed on roads every day. America turned the world upside down after 9/11, but more are killed on the road.”
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