Stoddart to Meet Mosley Today

Minardi boss Paul Stoddart will meet with FIA president Max Mosley today to present him with a document which he has prepared after consultation with all Formula One teams except Ferrari.

According to The Times newspaper, Stoddart will present a 22-page dossier in which teams claim Ferrari have benefitted from an alleged bias by the sport's governing body over the past years.

The meeting, however, was scheduled before Ferrari announced their commitment to Formula One until 2012, which means the Italian squad will stay in a Championship governed by the FIA and run by commercial boss Bernie Ecclestone.

The move meant Ferrari abandoned plans to take part in the Grand Prix World Championship (GPWC), set up by carmakers to rival Formula One.

Ferrari were the only team to sign the new agreement with the FIA and Ecclestone's FOM, although the Briton said he was hoping all teams would sign up before the start of the 2005 season in March.

Although the document presented by Stoddart doesn't include allegations of cheating, Ferrari's rivals believe the World Champions have been getting preferential treatment by the FIA, according to the report in The Times.

With Ferrari now committed to the Formula One World Championship, however, some of their rivals believe the meeting between Stoddart and Mosley will be useless.

"Paul is just meeting Max to have tea and biscuits," a source said.

The dossier is also believed to include cost saving proposals, ahead of next week's meeting between Mosley and the teams.