Mosley: New Rules to Stay Unchanged

Max Mosley, the president of Formula One's governing body, the FIA, revealed today that the sport's new regulations will continue unchanged for the rest of this season.

Mosley introduced the changes in January in a bid to end the dull domination of Ferrari and to reduce escalating costs and they so far appear to have had the desired effect. Mosley meet with the team bosses today ahead of the San Marino Grand Prix to review the changes.

"There is now a complete agreement to continue with procedures we have adopted at the beginning of the season and with the rules adopted at the end of last year," said Mosley.

There will, however, be some minor changes to the spare car rulings, with teams now allowed to use any two cars as long as the two cars in qualifying are those that start the race. If they are not, their drivers will be forced to start the race from the pitlane and, if an engine is changed between qualifying and the race, the car will start from back of grid.

Mosley admitted that there will be "a major meeting" on the continuation of car-to-pits telemetry and also traction control and launch control "in the near future" after calls from teams to end the ban.

"Teams want to keep traction control and launch control and we don't want to," added Mosley. "I hope they come to agree with us about that but as far as 2003 is concerned there are no more changes."