
FIA president Max Mosley has played down the impact Lewis Hamilton has had on Formula One in his explosive first season.
"If he does the same think next season as he's done this year, it will certainly have a big effect," Mosley told the BBC. "It will start to be negative becuase we'll get the Schumacher effect where people start writing to me saying can't you do something to slow him down?"
"He's certainly helped enormously in the UK for the sport," Mosley added. "He's also got a lot of interest worldwide because he's come manifestly not from a rich background - he's just made it."
"There's always someone new," he went on. "If it wasn't him, it would be either Rosberg or Kubica or one of the new stars. So I think there's a tendency to exaggerate the importance of Lewis Hamilton."
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