FIA vs FOTA the row rumbles on

The FIA and FOTA row still continues to rumble on with neither side conceding to the other. A middle ground must be found soon so development for the 2010 season can start and the new teams can establish what they are aiming for. With the FIA announcing 3 new teams and Williams all have entries along with Ferrari, Red Bull Racing and Torro Rosso who are marked as entered (due to contracts) but have already established that they hold firm with the rest of FOTA as they believe their contracts are being contravened. Conditional entries have been placed on the rest of the FOTA teams and a deadline of June 19th has been issued by the FIA for the close of the issue. This means we need to find a resolution to the situation or we may have more entry places passed to new teams. The FIA announced they had 15 entries placed by new teams giving the option of a 50 car grid should they have accepted all entries. This begs the question do the FIA need the FOTA teams and will we end up with a breakaway series?

Ross spoke to Autosport about his thoughts on the subject: Autosport