F1 Teams may lodge provisional 2010 entries

[John S]

Looks like the teams will maybe side step Max's deadline, but keep the pressure on the FIA.

Now they are starting to work smarter together.

Speaking after the latest FOTA meeting that took place in Monaco on Saturday afternoon, a senior source has suggested that the current teams may all choose to lodge their entries by next week's deadline - but only with an attachment expressing that their entry does depend on them being happy with the 2010 regulations.

Although FOTA has not revealed any details of its plans or progress, such a proviso would at least buy the teams some time to thrash out a suitable agreement with the FIA – which could include budget cap spending exceptions and a glide path of cost reduction.

Formula 1 teams are due to meet once again on race morning at the Monaco Grand Prix to try and hammer out an agreement to secure the future of the sport.

Although members of the Formula One Teams' Association (FOTA) have expressed some optimism that a solution can be found to the row over a £40 million budget cap, there remain differences that are not so easy to resolve in the short term.

And there is some time pressure on the situation, because the deadlines for entries to the 2010 world championship is next Friday.

Excerts from a post by Jonathan Noble on autosport.com, Today