Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali has said that the Italian team is committed to helping to cut costs in Formula One over the next few years, despite withdrawing from the Formula One Teams' Association.
Ferrari were one of a number of teams, including champions Red Bull, to withdraw from FOTA earlier this month, putting the future of the organisation in doubt.But all the teams that departed, including Ferrari, confirmed that they were still committed to helping make the Resource Restriction Agreement a success.
And Domenicali has backed that up with comments this week, saying that Ferrari wanted to see an "enforceable and policeable" RRA.
The agreement was brought in by the teams from 2010, and is designed to cut costs in the sport by limiting the use of key resources by the teams.
"We have a situation where we need to control the costs and to make sure that it [the RRA] is enforceable and policeable," Domenicali was quoted as saying by the Autosport website. "So the first point is to understand what is happening with the RRA now."
He went on: "The second point is to discuss with the major teams what the best solution is. This is a priority. So far, we have had a year or maybe two years with a lot of discussion and not a lot of results."
He also insisted that the sudden flurry of teams leaving FOTA recently were not down to an agreement between them, saying that each team withdrew for their own reasons.
Suggestions of an agreement emerged when Red Bull and Ferrari's exits were followed by the reported departure of both Sauber and Toro Rosso, two teams with close links to the frontrunning pair.
"I want to make it clear that we left FOTA for our own reasons and then some other teams left straight away for reasons that I don't know," he muttered.
"For us, there was nothing connected to anyone else because we took our decision without consulting anyone. We are not responsible for what the others are doing."
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo added that Ferrari remained completely against any plans to return to the proposals of a budget cap in the sport.
"I prefer to have the budget cap indirectly [with the RRA], not through the auditors who control what I spend because it's very easy to cheat," he grimaced.
"I will never accept a budget cap. A budget cap is against competition."
Former FIA president Max Mosley suggested the use of budget caps in the sport back in 2009, but those plans were scrapped when the teams threatened to form a breakaway series of their own.
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