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Standard engine set for go-ahead

Radical plans for a standard engine in Formula One look almost certain to be rubber-stamped by the FIA later this week, autosport.com has learned, with five teams including Renault believed to have expressed an interest in signing up to the deal.

FIA president Max Mosley has given teams until Thursday afternoon to sign up to the option of having a standard-specification Cosworth engine from 2010.

Autosport.com understands that as well as wholly independent teams Williams and Force India having shown an interest, Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso have told the FIA that they are taking the option into consideration.

The FIA has made it clear that it will not force manufacturers to run a standard engine from 2010, but Mosley said in last week's letter than any car maker's own power unit will have its performance pegged to that of the standard engine.

With no performance differentiation between the different types of engines, Briatore may have felt that there was little point in Renault continuing to fund a full-scale engine programme for tens of millions of pounds, when there is a fully-competitive option for less than £6 million.

Mosley is due to meet with FOTA representatives in Monaco on Wednesday to discuss the latest raft of cost-cutting ideas for implementation next year and 2010.

He has already hinted that measures being proposed by the teams do not go far enough and, with an added urgency to bring budgets down in the wake of Honda's withdrawal, there could be some fraught discussions about what needs to be done.

After Thursday's deadline for standard engines, the FIA World Motor Sport Council will meet on Friday, with Formula One cost cuts believed to be the main item on the agenda. It is expected that the meeting will rubber stamp any rules proposals coming out of the FOTA meeting, as well as the standard engine plans.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/72413

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Rest in peace Formula 1, hello GP2 -1

I'm an F1 diehard, but I can see me following you 5haz!

I wonder what would fans follow more?

GP2 or A1GP?

Yay Ff1!!

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Rest in peace Formula 1, hello GP2 -1

Alonso

I think they should clone Alonso and enforce standard drivers instead.

Quote from xaotik :

I think they should clone Alonso and enforce standard drivers instead.

Two words, Robert Kubica

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Alonso

Max Moseley

But variety and technology development has a major part of 1F since the begining, the FIA are killing off a major part of what F1 is, they might as well do away with the constructors championship also.

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Two words, Robert Kubica

No fun.