Force India face suspension from the Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) for breaking with the group by submitting an unconditional entry for next year’s championship, Toyota’s John Howett said on Friday.
They would be the second of the 10 current teams to be suspended after former champions Williams also broke with the group and submitted an unconditional entry for 2010 for contractual reasons.
FOTA are at loggerheads with the governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) over next year’s regulations and the member teams have united to submit an entry conditional on them being rewritten.
Force India said they were “broadly in agreement with the FOTA objectives”.
However the team added that “commercial obligations have demanded that Force India review its conditional entry jointly submitted by FOTA on deadline day (May 29).
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