It isn’t Max Mosley’s fault that some of the new teams have been faced with problems entering F1, according to Sir Jackie Stewart.
In mid-February, Ferrari released an article on their website which blamed Mosley for starting a ‘holy-war’ against the manufacturers, leading to the demise of three, whilst the gaps were filled with new, smaller teams.
“Everybody’s had to cut their cloth, not because of any regulation of Max Mosley’s,” Stewart said.
“But I think he overdid the threat in trying to take out a lot of the big companies from the sport so small companies and teams could come in. It’s been demonstrated smaller teams are not coming in very well.
“We’ve lost BMW and Toyota, for example.”
Although he agrees that having big companies in F1 isn’t a bad thing, he says you can’t blame Mosley for driving them away.
“You mustn’t start saying it’s bad for the sport to have the big companies in, but I don’t think we can blame Max Mosley for this – all of it anyway.
“He probably went a bit too far.”
Stewart is confident manufacturers come and go, despite the loss of three, including Renault who only remain in name.
“They’ll always come and go, everybody has great ambitions; not everybody can pull it together.
“The financial climate in the world at the present time doesn’t make life very easy.”
