Mosley puts the pressure on FOTA teams

Max Mosley, president of the FIA has again made it clear that he is unlikely to change anything to the 2010 budget cap and its accompanying regulations. Mosley stressed that it is the FIA that is setting out the rules, and if the teams cannot agree with that they should start their own series.

Speaking to Motorsport Aktuell, Mosley said, even if the proposed changes would have been acceptable, it is now simply too late to change them considering so many teams have made an entry big to compete under the budget cap regulations.

"A Concorde Agreement which one receives so late can't be signed by June 12. We now have a conflict and we will see who succeeds in the end. I say to them: If you want to draw up your own rules, then you can organise your own championship. But we have the Formula 1 championship.

"We draw up the rules for that. We have been doing that for 60 years and we will continue doing so."

All FOTA teams - except for Williams who entered unconditionally 3 days earlier - entered a conditional entry into 2010 just ahead of last Friday's deadline, stating that they will compete under the condition that the budget cap is revised and that the two-tier regulations are scrapped. Ferrari principal Stefano Domenicali has earlier explained that these entries will be void if the FIA cannot comply with that.