Mosley: “Ferrari's defeat is one less problem for F1”

Max Mosley said he was happy that Ferrari and Fernando Alonso did not win the 2010 world championship.

The former FIA president, who banned team orders in 2002 after Ferrari's scandalous switch of positions at the Austrian GP, ​​believes that both Ferrari and Alonso should have been penalized as a result of the Hockenheim events.
So, if in the end Alonso and Ferrari had won the title “they would have offered the world yet another unpleasant point of discussion regarding team orders. I doubt that something like this is good for F1,” Mosley told German newspaper Die Welt.
“But thank goodness we are here talking about Ferrari's wrong strategy in the last race, and not about whether or not it deserves the title. It's one less problem for Formula 1,” added the Englishman.
More generally, despite his clash with the Maranello team last season, Mosley praised Ferrari's 2010 season: “Ferrari did an excellent job from mid-season onwards. They were almost left out and instead they managed to fight for the world championship until the last race."
Finally, Mosley praised the new world champion without reservation: “Sebastian deserves to win and is an excellent world champion. He is a nice, relaxed and natural character, and his victory is a victory for Formula 1 itself”.

Filippo Ronchetti