Max Mosley: Lewis Hamilton’s £100m Mercedes deal is ‘absurd’

Mosley’s comments come two weeks after Lewis Hamilton penned a new reported £100 million deal with Mercedes.

Hamilton’s three-year deal, believed to be worth around £32m a season from 2016, was finally confirmed before the Monaco Grand Prix following a protracted contract saga.

The 30-year-old topped British sport’s rich list in April, with an estimated net worth of £88m, and now seems certain to increase the gap between himself and second-placed Wayne Rooney next year.

“It is absurd,” Mosley told GQ magazine. “All the driver worries about is what he earns compared with the other guy.”

Mosley also called for teams budgets to be limited to $100m (£65m) per year.

“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.”