Teams Postpone Rules Review Meeting

Formula One bosses have postponed for a week a meeting to review the sport's new rules after the first three races of the season.

Team heads at the Brazilian Grand Prix said on Saturday that the meeting, originally scheduled for next Friday in London, will now take place on the Thursday before the April 20th San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.

"The reason that it has moved is because we really want to do a more thorough job than we have time available," said McLaren boss Ron Dennis. "We all felt when we had a team principals meeting yesterday that we needed more time to analyse the better part of the regulations.

"There are still strong views held by most people about every single regulation... we need more time to try and come to a consensus because the next set of changes, if and when they are made, have to be clearly for the better."

Dennis said teams would have to race under the existing regulations at Imola but there was no reason why any eventual changes could not be introduced at one race's notice. "So we don't want to be pressured into making decisions that are not well thought through."

International Automobile Federation (FIA) president Max Mosley had called the meeting to review rule changes including single-lap qualifying and a ban on refuelling cars between Saturday and Sunday's race.

A separate meeting involving FIA race director Charlie Whiting and the team technical directors will take place as planned on Wednesday, April 9th.