Former Formula One World Champion Nigel Mansell has criticised the current situation in Formula One racing.

Mansell stated: "Formula One is the pinnacle of motor sport and it is a shame that they can't get the format right where two or three teams can be really challenging, like it used to be. Fortunately I'm not involved in it anymore, so I don't have to worry about it. But I do feel for them sometimes because they do get some unjust remarks."

If you look back into history you will see that one dominant team is not a strange thing - McLaren has been there and Williams also. Mansell acknowledges this but said: "You can't turn the clock back. I think the difference was in the late 1980s and early 1990s you had Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Nelson Piquet and Michael Schumacher. There were a lot of world champions and there was such a depth of talent. But more important than even that, Ferrari were competing, Williams were competing, McLaren were competing and Benetton were competing. That was the difference, there was always more than one team going to challenge and that is what made it great."

He also stated: "I've always said that you never win a world championship in a bad car. I think most important is the style in which you win the championship -- you can make the championship hard or you win it with panache or style. It's what you do to your team mate then, isn't it?"