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“Half the teams simply can’t compete because they haven’t got enough money,” Mosley said. “To me that is wrong. You would not allow one team to run a bigger engine than another and yet if one team has five times as much money, the effect is exactly the same. It’s not fair from the sporting point of view.
“The only way to deal with it is to get everybody to agree. You can sit all the teams down and say ‘Look, collectively we’ve got a massive problem because some of you have enough money, but most of you don’t and if we go on like this Formula One is going to collapse, so I am inviting you all to agree to a change’. Unfortunately, you cannot so it without unanimity.”
FIA chief Jean Todt (right) is seen as weak
While Mosley worked hand in glove with Ecclestone over decades, he sees an imbalance in the current set-up, with the FIA weaker than ever.
“If everything is in one pair of hands then I think you have a problem,” he said. “I don’t know what’s in the arrangements which have been made but my understanding is that Bernie together with the teams can outvote the FIA. I might be wrong about that and shouldn’t really speculate but I get the impression the FIA is not perhaps in as strong a position as it used to be.”
Ecclestone himself has repeatedly mocked the extent of Todt’s involvement in Formula One. “Jean just likes keeping everyone happy,” the 84-year-old said at the last race in Malaysia.