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FOTA and FIA making progress
Eurosport - Sat, 23 May 23:33:00 2009
Formula One teams are making headway but still have some fundamental differences to resolve with the governing body in a standoff over the 2010 rules, according to team principals.
The Formula One Teams Association met again at the Monaco Grand Prix after three hours of talks with FIA president Max Mosley on Friday.
Further meetings were scheduled for Sunday.
The crisis has been hanging over the sport for weeks, with champions Ferrari and some other manufacturers threatening to walk away at the end of the year if the rules are not rewritten.
The FIA wants to introduce an optional 40 million pound budget cap, with those accepting it granted greater technical freedom. Ferrari say that would lead to a two-tier championship that is unacceptable. They want a gradual reduction in costs instead.
The teams have been set a May 29 deadline to sign up for the championship, with some would-be new teams already registering their interest.
"I think there's a general acceptance that Formula One should be played out to one set of regulations, but there are a lot of other issues," McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh said.
"There were some constructive parts of the meeting yesterday, but not everything is agreed.
"There is a lot of pressure on all sides," he added. "We can't spend months negotiating and coming to a conclusion. We need to do it pretty damn quickly.
"But there are still some fundamental differences as to how we ensure a sustainable way forward for Formula One. We've just got to make sure by working together we can resolve those."
Whitmarsh said there was a determination to keep all 10 current teams and warned that it was easy for individual egos to get in the way of a solution.
"A lot has been said in the run-up to the meetings, which probably doesn't help because it only causes people to be entrenched in their position," he said.
"I think we all have a responsibility, those of us who are involved in the sport, to find a positive way forward."
Brawn GP owner Ross Brawn said progress had been made at every meeting.
"There are agreements amongst the teams and agreements with the FIA, so I think my view is that there is progress and if we keep working in a constructive way then we will eventually reach a solution," he said.
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Balas #859 akughi\ catat
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betul la ..aku ada baca lat f1 live |
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Reply #860 ShadowChaser's post
dia boleh ganti tempat
berat kilo.. |
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Balas #864 akughi\ catat
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rajin ko tepek gambar..patut dapat credit banyak ni dari shadow |
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Reply #867 weta_studio's post
ala tak kesah pasal kredit tu...
meriah sikit kalo ade gambo2 ni
tak de la bosan membace je...
kalo aku ade mase aku tepek la
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Originally posted by akughi at 25-5-2009 09:12 PM 
dia boleh ganti tempat
berat kilo..
haha sapa nak ambik drebar bongkak tu |
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Reply #868 akughi's post
gambar monaco race kurang best sebab tak byk aksi potong memotong dan close wheel racing  |
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Reply #870 ShadowChaser's post
thn lepas ujan kan....
ko tgk la bape kerat je yg sempat abiskn
race...
thn ni cuace cantik pulak |
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Balas #871 akughi\ catat
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semua driver dah aware ttg monaco ni..tak perlu gelojoh sgt nak potong |
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Balas #874 akughi\ catat
dia tu mmg macam tu
nak menang kereta slow mcm kura2 |
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'Ferrari to sign up, Toyota to quit'
Ferrari and the other FOTA members, barring Toyota, are all expected to sign up for next year's Championship by the close of play today.
The teams have until today, Friday 29th May, to sign up for the 2010 Formula One season after Max Mosley pushed forward the deadline.
However, in the build-up to D-Day there has been a great deal of political tension between the teams and Mosley as the FIA President put into place plans to introduce a budget cap and two-tier regulations that would favour those agreeing to the cap.
This resulted in some of the teams; Ferrari, Renault, Red Bull, Toro Rosso and Toyota; threatening to quit the sport.
But after weeks of wrangling, the two parties have reportedly agreed to a £85m restriction in 2010 with the cap dropping to £40m the following season. There will also be one set of regulations for all teams while the existing teams have undertaken to help out any new entrants by supplying cheap parts and technical expertise.
"We are not meant to say anything, but you can expect Ferrari and the others to sign up," an insider told the Daily Mail.
Meanwhile, the Telegraph is reporting that Ferrari's 'entry will be conditional on the response of the FIA, the sport's governing body, to a proposal submitted this morning by the Formula One Teams Association. The proposal will demand assurances regarding the stability, governance and rule-making within the sport.'
But while Ferrari are expected to sign up, one team that reportedly won't is Toyota as the Japanese manufacturer is believed to be pulling out of Formula One at the end of the season.
'As for Toyota, they are looking for an elegant exit. Their Formula One project has failed to deliver fruit, despite annual expenditure of around £300m,' claimed the Daily Mail.
'With their fellow Japanese manufacturers Honda having withdrawn last December, they can depart without too much embarrassment at home. Grand prix racing can live without them, if not Ferrari.'
The FIA will announce the names of next season's participants on June 12.
alahaiiiiiii toyota.....
jangan la blah..... |
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Reply #876 hyphrigian's post
Friday's sign-up does not resolve the struggle for a final version of the 2010 rules. Mosley at first sought to impose a 30 million pound budget cap that although optional would have given compliant teams greater leeway in meeting technical regulations. That figure was amended to 40 million ($64.6 million). FOTA wants a spending cut to be implemented in a more gradual fashion. The FIA wants to publish the entry list by June 12, at which time a financial agreement needs to be in order. Current thinking puts a 2010 spending cap at 80 million to 100 million pounds with the 40 million figure adopted for 2011.
FOTA teams joined newcomers Campos Racing and USF1.:pompom: Spanish Formula Three campaigner Campos was first to submit an entry when the window opened Monday. Charlotte, N.C. based USF1 reiterated its intention to compete next year. Other entry filers included Prodrive,:pompom: Litespeed GP:pompom: and Lola,:pompom: bringing the total entries to 15 teams or 30 cars. The FIA is seeking 26-car fields for next year's grids.
Sports car builder Lola Racing bills itself as the largest-selling customer race car supplier in the world. The company's closest association with F1 was the Haas Lola team that entered the 1985 and 1986 championships. That team was founded by Carl Haas and Teddy Mayer and was not a Lola factory-backed team.
Litespeed is an English Formula Three team whose principal, Nino Judge, worked in F1 as an engineer. BBC Sport reported Litespeed will work with the Mike Gascoyne-led MGI Ltd. Gascoyne worked for a half-dozen F1 teams, including as technical director for Jordan, Renault and Toyota.
Prodrive is headed by David Richards, who replaced current Renault team principal at Benetton in 1997 and guided BAR Honda to second in the 2004 FIA Constructors' Championship. Richards bought Aston Martin from Ford in 2007 and with backing by Kuwait's investment bank, Dar Capital, is expected to give the marque its first F1 team.
Aston Martin originally hired Jim Clark to drive for its F1 team in 1960 but a car was never sorted and the team was scrapped, leaving the Scotsman, then driving F2 cars for Team Lotus, free to step into Lotus F1 cars. Clark, of course, went on to win two world championships for Team Lotus. |
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FOTA teams not accepting budget caps
Some observers saw Friday as an easing of hostilities, but in truth dissident teams are no closer to accepting plans for budget capping in Formula One.
Stefano Domenicali, team boss of the sport's longest serving and most influential and important competitor Ferrari, clarified on Saturday that FOTA is "absolutely not" willing to accept Max Mosley's budget cap concept.
With the exception of suspended member Williams, all the existing F1 teams on Friday lodged entries for next year's world championship.
The FIA, however, will not automatically accept their paperwork, because the teams said the entries will only be valid if the proposed 2010 rules are torn up.
Domenicali clarified that the teams are demanding the 2009 rules next year "modified as per FOTA's suggestions", and seemed to contradict reports that a budget cap of 100m euro will apply in 2010, before the FIA president's preferred 45m figure arrives in 2011.
The Italian said the teams should instead police their own budgets, while small teams are offered cost-saving measures like 6.5m customer engines and gearboxes.
One of the proposed new rules, meanwhile, is a limit on the number of new wings that can be introduced per season.
"There are many other points, but for the moment we prefer not to go into further detail, given we are in discussion with the FIA," Domenicali added.  |
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toyota tak jadi blah......yeyyyyyyyyyy |
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aku dah pening dgn perjanjian FOTA dan FIA ni
dan ditambah dgn team baru masuk |
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Post time 24-5-2009 03:37 PM
