Mosley critical of GPMA's lack of input

The World Motor Sport Council met in Paris on Wednesday and approved the sporting regulations for 2008, including a controversial plan to freeze engine development for a three-year period from the start of 2008 to the end of 2010.

The WMSC also agreed a plan for a 'window of opportunity' from March 24 to 31 for teams to commit.

Anyone wishing to join at a later date can still do so, but they will have no say in shaping the regulations.

The Grand Prix Manufacturers' Association, the GPMA, wrote a letter to Mosley yesterday.

The letter, made public by the FIA today, outlined some of the aspects of the regulations the GPMA were unhappy about, including plans to freeze engine development. 

The FIA president responded to the GPMA today, in a letter in which he criticised the manufacturers for not having shown interest in the regulations before.

"The World Motor Sport Council took account of the contents of your letter, but noted that it contained no proposals which could be substituted for any of those in front of the Council, sent to you on March 1 and then again, with minor modifications, on 15 March," Mosley wrote.

"The World Motor Sport Council has also noticed that none of you attended the meetings which were held in 2005 to discuss the 2008 regulations, despite repeated invitations to do so, and that the proposals that you promised to deliver to us in June 2005 are still not at hand.

"In the circumstances the Council decided to adopt the proposed Sporting Regulations in their entirely and extend an invitation to all interested teams to enter the 2008 Championship and participate in discussions on any element they believe could be improved."

A GPMA source said, however, that the proposals Mosley refers to were promised by the middle of last year and they were duly delivered by the GPMA in July.