Oct.6 (GMM) Sir Jackie Stewart is believed to be considering taking legal action against Max Mosley, after the FIA president recently described him as a "certified halfwit".



Stewart, the triple world champion who still regularly attends races as a sponsor representative, attracted the rebuke from Mosley following his strong criticism of how the F1's governing body handled the espionage saga.



In a media lunch in London last month, Mosley derided the 68-year-old Scot - who is a famous suffered of dyslexia - as a "certified halfwit" who dresses oddly.



"He's a figure of fun among drivers," Mosley said. "He goes round dressed up as a 1930s music hall man."



But as rumours of legal action arise, presumably for slander, it has emerged that 1996 world champion Damon Hill has staunchly defended Stewart in a letter to the British print magazine Autosport.



"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," an excerpt from Hill's letter reads.



"It is conduct most unbecoming of an FIA president and, in my humble view, brought the sport into disrepute."