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Mosley: Driver salaries absurd

Former FIA president Max Mosley has hit out at F1's spending habits, particularly driver salaries. Long a champion of budget-capping, and certainly reducing the overall spending in F1, Mosley believes that team budgets must be limited. Still keen to see an annual limit of around $100m per team, his latest comments come just days after Lewis Hamilton signed a new mega-deal with Mercedes which would allegedly swallow up a large portion of its (regulated) annual budget. 'It is absurd,' he told GQ 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...
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