Berger: Toro Rosso won't compromise

Spyker lodged their complaint against Toro Rosso on Thursday afternoon amid claims that the Italian team's car had been designed by rival team Red Bull Racing - which is against the regulations.

Autosport.com understands the basis of this claim revolved around some blueprint designs that suggested Red Bull Racing had penned both their own RB3 and Toro Rosso's STR2.

The stewards decided on Saturday, however, that it would be 'inappropriate' for them to rule on the matter, especially as the customer car row has already been taken to arbitration.

Despite Bernie Ecclestone stepping into the debate to try and find a solution to the situation, with a team principals' meeting likely to take place this weekend, Berger insists that his team are not interested in any deal that will appease Spyker.

"There is no compromise solution," he told autosport.com. "Either we are right or wrong. We have already (been offered) several times from Kolles something to base something on, but is this the solution? No.

"If we are not right, we have to do it different. And if we are right then we do not have to do anything different."

There are suggestions that a pooling of television rights money between Spyker and the two 'customer car' teams would be enough to bring the situation to a close, but Berger has ruled out such a proposal.

"I think it is the principle. F1 is not something where in the end you fix something with money. You have a regulation, interpretation, possibilities, you stretch everything to the limits, but it should be right or wrong. And Max or Bernie should say it is right or wrong.

"At this moment Kolles doesn't accept them so he says it is not enough for me, a normal court has to say. So we are fine to go the way with a normal court."

Berger has denied he is frustrated by the ongoing row over customer cars, which is taking place against the background of arbitration proceedings having been launched by Spyker.

"Is it frustrating? No. We have to deal with it. I try to be not emotional at all. I try to understand his (Kolles') point as long as it is correct, but it is fine for me to have different opinions. That is the nature of competition, to have different opinions.

"The only thing where I am struggling is that we all agree that we have FIA to be the body to control if something goes out of the regulations or is in the regulations, to react at the time, and they do that very much.

"On this side he says he does not accept the FIA - that is the frustrating thing. If this would be the case in the future then everything would be decided in a normal court."

Berger has also played down the significance of the blueprint designs that suggest Red Bull Racing were behind the concept of the RB3 and the STR2.

The FIA stewards confirmed that part of their evidence was a: "photograph of a component said to be fitted on a Toro Rosso car and another of that fitted to a Red Bull Racing car but also by a drawing alleged to be of the same component and said by them to be prepared by Red Bull Racing Limited but bearing two drawing numbers, one commencing with the prefix RB3 and the other with (S)TR2."

Berger said that there was no importance to the fact the design was from 'Red Bull Racing Ltd' rather than independent company Red Bull Technology.

"He (Kolles) still has to understand that we never denied we are working with Red Bull Technology. It was always our intention to do from the beginning on.

"Red Bull Technology was before Red Bull Racing Ltd, so they transferred the name, but there were always two different companies in place.

"Unfortunately before they had the same name, one was limited and one was not, but that is all formalities.

"At the end of the day there exists Red Bull Technology, call it what you want, that is where we get our part of our knowledge and that is the structure.

"So he is fighting against the structure and we think in the regulations we are allowed to have this structure."