Former FIA president Max Mosley says he is happy that Ferrari did not win the championship in 2010.
It was Mosley who banned team orders after the Italian team’s rigged Austrian Grand Prix result in 2002 and a similar situation occurred at the German Grand Prix this year when Felipe Massa pulled over to allow team-mate Fernando Alonso past.
“It would have given the world another unpleasant discussion about team orders,” Mosley told German newspaper Die Welt.
“I doubt whether that would have been good for Formula One. So thank god we are instead talking about the strategy mistake of the last race and not whether Ferrari really deserved the title. That is one less problem for Formula One.” ESPN F1
However, a succession of wins for Alonso bought him into play for the title showdown in Abu Dhabi.
“Ferrari did an excellent job from the mid-season onwards,” he said. “They were almost out of the race but managed to bring themselves into play.”
Nonetheless, Mosley expressed some pleasure that the Italian outfit failed to secure either championships after Alonso was gifted a victory in Hockenheim thanks to team-orders.
“In the end I’m happy that Ferrari didn’t win,” he said. “It would have given the world an unpleasant debate about how Ferrari came to it.”
“It was a strategic mistake in the final race that took the issue off the table and the question of whether Ferrari would have earned the title in 2010 is, thank God, unasked.” The F1 Times
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