Never before in Formula One has the background noise been more deafening.
Max Mosley, the president of the FIA, motor sport’s governing body, refuses to bow to almost universal pressure from within the sport to step aside; the teams are once again talking about the prospect of a damaging breakaway series and Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One commercial rights-holder, is at the heart of a new scandal after expressing his admiration for Adolf Hitler.
“It’s obviously wrong, disgusting,” Mario Theissen, the team principal of BMW Sauber, said. “Apparently he was shocked himself when he was confronted by what he had said. He has made some comments and, from what I have heard, he will make some more comments as soon as he is here and I think this is necessary.”
Button offered the hope that Formula One could resolve its issues off the track as soon as possible. “I just hope it sorts itself out — it has been going on long enough,” he said of the row over budget capping and the determination of the teams to send Mosley packing. “This is a great sport — maybe it needs to be tweaked in certain ways but that’s it. We have so many viewers and look at Silverstone [where the British Grand Prix was staged three weeks ago], it was rammed. So the sport is obviously doing well.”
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