Mosley: Teams won't give up testing

The F1 Commission met this week to propose cost-cutting measures. It had been expected that they would rule on test bans, but it appears they have not come to an agreement.

FIA president Mosley told the German press: "If I could just make up the rules myself, I would abolish testing [during the season] and allow it only in the winter and on the Friday before a grand prix at the specific venues. But the teams would have to agree on that and, at the moment, they want to carry on testing.

"As far as I'm concerned, it's money down the drain because all of them are developing their cars and the difference between them stays the same. Perhaps you are two tenths of a second faster but there are millions paid out in vain for that."

The only expected cost-cutting measure legislating body the FIA World Council did rule on this week was to introduce a one engine per car limit over a GP weekend for 2004. But Mosley is disappointed that it could not have been brought in a year earlier than that.

"I would have preferred it if we could have done it for 2003 already but we have to keep the Friday because all the [circuit] promoters demanded that," he said. The main point however is that, from 2004, we will race for the whole weekend with one engine. That saves a lot of money."