As expected, the nine remaining FOTA teams have kissed and made up with the FIA, and submitted their entries for the new season. Their participation, however, will be dependant on there being a single set of 2010 regulations.
The nine teams all confirmed their entries as one, with the deadline for entering the 2010 season rapidly approaching, and the Formula One Teams' Association confirmed that their participation was tied in with the requirement that a new Concorde Agreement was ready and in place in time for the release of the final 2010 entry list on June 12th.
A statement released by FOTA on Friday moped on, saying that: "The renewal of the Concorde Agreement will provide security for the future of the sport by binding all parties in a formal relationship that will ensure stability via sound governance."
The conditions imposed on their participation also included the demand that the regulations for the new season be the same as 2009, the statement saying that the teams wanted the rules to be "identical for all competitors and amended in accordance with proposals that FOTA has submitted to the FIA." Which isn't very demanding of them at all.
"All FOTA teams' entries for the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship have been submitted today on the understanding that (a) all FOTA teams will be permitted to compete during the 2010 Formula One season on an identical regulatory basis and (b) that they may only be accepted as a whole," the statement went on to say, in a tedious manner.
The open-endedness of the teams' participation in the championship is presumably designed to allow the relentless slanging match over the future of the sport to continue for another couple of weeks. The FIA had repeatedly stated that they would be unwilling to compromise on the proposed budget cap rules, but the teams have responded with their own ideas, based around technical support for any new teams on the grid and a nominal budget cap of 100 million Euros in 2010, reducing to 45 million Euros for 2011.
The statement concluded by saying: "All FOTA teams now look forward with optimism to collaborating proactively and productively with the FIA, with a view to establishing a solid foundation on which the future of a healthy and successful Formula One can be built, providing lasting stability and sound governance."
Which is all probably lies.
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