Huge F1 driver salaries absurd claims Mosley

Formula 1 teams should have less money to squander on absurd driver salaries claims FIA president Max Mosley, speaking to the men's magazine GQ not long after Lewis Hamilton's lucrative new deal was signed.

It is believed Hamilton's Mercedes deal brings him in line with the dozens of millions also earned by top champions like Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel.

"It is absurd," Mosley said. "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," he added.