FIA President Max Mosley believes there will be an agreement between the teams and Formula 1’s sporting body in the near future, thus avoiding a new breakaway Championship.
The Briton revealed that the FIA and FOTA teams ‘are getting closer and closer’ while speaking to the BBC at Silverstone, adding: “All these things take time.
“The problem is that we have eight teams in the FOTA group and some of them want to sit down and sort things out and some don’t.
“We've reached the point now where the only thing separating us is somebody sitting down and agreeing the actually mechanisms for the cost-cutting or the resource restrictions as they teams like to call it, so that’s something minimal.
“If everyone wants to find a settlement, we’ll do it very, very quickly. The difficulty is to get all eight teams to want a settlement, but we just have to be patient.”
Mosley concluded: “I’m absolutely certain [there] won’t [be a split]. There’s a little bit of time before 2010 so people want to continue arguing if they can, but I don’t think they will for much longer.”