Force India duly registered for the 2010 world championship

Like Williams, Force India also failed to respect its pact with FOTA and unilaterally opted out of the 2010 world championship. The move reduces to eight the number of F1 teams threatening to leave the category next season due to of the budget ceiling wanted by Max Mosley.

The eight teams have no meetings scheduled for Istanbul, but Ferrari team manager Stefano Domenicali was spotted on Thursday entering the FIA ​​motorhome for a meeting with Mosley's representative, Alan Donnelly. Then the Italian went to the McLaren motorhome. Neither Mosley nor FOTA president Luca di Montezemolo are in Turkey this weekend.

Furthermore, it is rumored that Brawn GP, ​​an independent team like Williams and Force India, would willingly accept a budget cap but will not do like the other two teams and will follow FOTA's decisions.

“The teams' recent proposal makes many concessions to the FIA,” said Ross Brawn. “The result would be the same as Mosley's budget cap.”

BMW chief Mario Theissen also said on Thursday that the proposal is similar to the budget ceiling, albeit with a different 'name'.

Andre' Cotta