by Russell Atkins
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Two former
Formula 1 world champions have expressed their views on the sex scandal swirling around embattled
FIA President
Max Mosley.
Four-time title-winner Alain Prost sought to distance himself from the issue, stressing that it is those involved within the sport that Mosley rules – most prominently its manufacturers – who should decide whether the 68-year-old is still fit to continue in his all-powerful role at the head of world motorsport's governing body.
“My view is very simple,” the Frenchman said, speaking exclusively to
Crash.net Radio. “On the one side you have a private affair, as everybody says, and I don't want to interfere too much in that.
“Secondly, I'm not inside Formula 1 – I'm not in the position of one of the big constructors – and it's these kind of people who must decide if it's a problem for the future of the sport or not. That's not up to people like me – you cannot judge from outside.”
1980 champ Alan Jones, meanwhile, was characteristically somewhat more tongue-in-cheek on the matter, suggesting that ‘the only crime he [Mosley] did was to get caught'...
