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Hamilton questions F1's salary cap idea

Any proposed cap on the salaries of Formula One drivers should be careful not to hold back the sport's top talent, newly crowned seven-times champion Lewis Hamilton said on Thursday. Formula One has been discussing a cap on driver salaries as part of a wider effort to level the financial playing field between the wealthiest and poorest teams on the grid. "I'm not personally opposed to it," the Briton, who equalled Michael Schumacher's record haul of seven titles at the last race in Turkey, told reporters in a video conference call at the Bahrain Grand Prix. "I do think about the next up and coming young stars that are coming through and I don't particularly see why they...
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