Hill slams Mosley
"That [legal] option is still very open," Stewart told autosport.com. "My lawyers advised me that I have every right to do so, and that's an option that I am able to take up. We're in communication – I'm not personally, but my lawyers are in communication with Mr. Mosley."
"I think it was very wrong for Max to do what he did, because it's unbecoming for the president of the body that governs this sport to be speaking in such a fashion," he said.
"I don't think you would see the chairman of the Olympic movement saying such a thing. And that of course is much higher than Max, but nevertheless it is an international organization.
"I think it was an act of misjudgment by him, but he must have been very upset – for no apparent reason, because any criticisms that I have made are no different from many other people aired with respect to the severity of the penalty of the McLaren thing, and the manner in which the case came together.
"So I think I was observing and I have the privilege of doing that as an individual opinion, but he obviously has not used to people questioning some of his judgments. And in this particular case I didn't do it against Max Mosley, it was just my opinion of the whole business that took place.
"But I think it is unfortunate that he behaved in the fashion that he has. It is libelous, and I think that's really all I can say."
10/05/07 Former world champion Damon Hill attacked Max Mosley, president of Formula One's ruling body, the FIA, over "insulting" remarks he made about British motor racing legend Sir Jackie Stewart.
Mosley labeled Stewart, a lifelong sufferer of dyslexia, "a certified halfwit."
In a letter to the magazine Autosport, Hill slammed Mosley: "To call him 'a certified halfwit' would be on the first level unkind, but on another level is nothing other than a wicked joke designed to visit the utmost humiliation on its victim.
"Regardless or not of whether he was alluding to his dyslexia, what he said was a gross insult to one of the sport's leading figures over the last four decades and a thrice world champion. Not only is it bad manners, it also calls into question the character and judgment of the man who represents motor sport throughout the world through the august institution of the FIA.
"It is conduct most unbecoming of an FIA president and, in my humble view, brought the sport into disrepute, a crime he seems so keen to eradicate. I would like to emphasize that my motive for writing is sheer indignation and outrage at what I see as abuse."