Mosley Says Hamilton Not That Important To F1

Max Mosley believes that Lewis Hamilton isn’t as important nor vital to the success of F1 as everyone in the media seems to be making out.

Hamilton-Mania is sweeping the world (or so it seems), and people are saying that he is the best thing since sliced bread, and he IS F1.

“If he does the same thing next season as he’s done this season, it will certainly have a big effect,” Mosley told the BBC.

“It will start to be negative because we’ll get the Schumacher effect where people start writing to me saying can’t you do something to slow him down.

“He has certainly helped enormously in the UK. He’s also got a lot of interest worldwide because he’s come manifestly not from a rich background. He’s just made it.

“[But] there is always somebody new. If it wasn’t him, it would be either [Nico] Rosberg or [Robert] Kubica or one of the other new stars, a [Sebastian] Vettel, would suddenly be the big one.

“So I think there is a tendency to exaggerate the importance of Lewis Hamilton.”