F1 teams granted entry for 2010

[FansFocus.Com]

All 10 current Formula 1 teams have been included on the list of entrants for the 2010 season, though five of those are on a 'conditional basis'.

 

The sport's governing body has been at loggerheads with the teams' umbrella group Fota over a proposed budget cap and other plans for the sport's future.

 

And McLaren, Renault, Toyota, BMW Sauber and Brawn GP have been given a week to submit an unconditional entry.

 

Campos Grand Prix, Manor and US F1 have been accepted as new teams next season.

 

Ferrari, Red Bull and Toro Rossi have been granted entries, but that could now prompt a legal battle as they, along with the other seven members of Fota, initially submitted conditional entries.

 

Red Bull Racing and sister team Toro Rosso have also been handed an entry by the FIA, who will argue they and Ferrari are contractually obliged to be involved.

 

However, Ferrari have already argued the FIA invalidated a contract agreed in 2005 as president Max Mosley failed to keep his side of the deal by not consulting with the teams over the rule changes.

 

Williams and Force India will definitely be competing, though, after they submitted their own unconditional entries, prompting suspension from Fota.

 

Eleventh-hour negotiations aimed at ending the impasse between the teams and the FIA took place on Thursday.

 

Those talks convened after Mosley wrote to the teams last week advising them to submit unconditional entries so that they might be guaranteed a say in framing next season's rules.

 

McLaren, Renault, Toyota, BMW Sauber and Brawn GP now have until 19 June to comply.

 

If they fail to submit an unconditional entry, the FIA will return to the pool of potential new entrants as they are determined to have a 26-car grid in place for next year.

 

Fota wanted a new version of the confidential 'Concorde Agreement' governing the sport.

 

They also wanted the published 2010 regulations to be rewritten, removing an optional

[Big J R]

I think there'll be a lot more in-fighting before the begining of the next season.

 

There's still too much bitchy-ness within the ruling body.