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• Talks between Fota and FIA president Max Mosley break down • Teams told they do not yet have entries for 2010 championship The prospect of a breakaway Formula One world championship was dramatically revived yesterday when the technical directors of the Formula One Teams Association (Fota) walked out of a meeting with FIA representatives and said the sport’s future was “in jeopardy”. After weeks of tense negotiation it had been thought that the eight Fota teams, which include Ferrari and McLaren in addition to this year’s pace-setters Brawn GP, had been edging closer to a deal with the FIA that would see the sport’s governing body secure its long-desired budget cuts by reducing costs on a progressive basis over the next couple of years. However, today’s meeting, which the FIA president, Max Mosley, claimed was convened simply to agree the final points of detail, ended in acrimony after Fota concluded that the FIA was again attempting to move the goalposts at the last moment.
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Spectre of F1 breakaway looms again
