Oct.22 (GMM) Some details have emerged about what was agreed and discussed in Geneva on Tuesday during Max Mosley's meeting with FOTA officials.
After the FIA president met in Switzerland with the F1 teams' representatives Luca di Montezemolo and John Howett, a joint statement said "significant cost savings for 2009 and 2010" had been settled, but it was not revealed what those measures were.Anonymous team figures, however, subsequently told media confidantes that one of the chief cost-cutting measures will be the extension of the one-engine per two weekends rule to three races in 2009.Customer engine packages, meanwhile, will be made available by manufacturers to independent teams for no more than 10m euros per season.The joint statement on Tuesday also indicated that FOTA would work "urgently on further proposals for 2010 and thereafter".It is understood that these discussions, to begin taking place with meetings in Brazil next week, will involve expanding testing restrictions, and the future use of customer cars.It is also believed that, in Geneva on Tuesday, Montezemolo and Howett made clear FOTA's desire for KERS technology to be standardised in 2010 -- which could lead to many teams opting against using their own systems next year.On the KERS issue, FOTA and Mosley do not see eye-to-eye."The FIA intends to keep KERS as a performance differentiator in formula one and, indeed, increase its importance in 2011," Mosley had said before the meeting.
