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23rd May 2009, 02:44
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/sport/12-f1-teams-united-after-crisis-talks--bi-15
MONTE CARLO: Formula One's disgruntled teams met to settle their differences on Friday and after more than two hours of discussions said they would now present a united front in their showdown talks with the sport's ruling body.
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo, absent from last Friday's Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) meeting in London, this time was present and he helped to pull them together to avoid a crisis in the sport.
Di Montezemolo, who was at his father's funeral last week, emerged from Friday's meeting on board Renault boss Flavio Briatore's super-yacht Blue Force, moored in the harbour, to announce their unity.
He told reporters: ‘As always, we have had a very good meeting. As always, there's a very good atmosphere and now we are all together.’
‘We are unified and we are in a position to go now to the president of the FIA saying very constructively and in a very clear way what is the position of FOTA.’
MONTE CARLO: Formula One's disgruntled teams met to settle their differences on Friday and after more than two hours of discussions said they would now present a united front in their showdown talks with the sport's ruling body.
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo, absent from last Friday's Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) meeting in London, this time was present and he helped to pull them together to avoid a crisis in the sport.
Di Montezemolo, who was at his father's funeral last week, emerged from Friday's meeting on board Renault boss Flavio Briatore's super-yacht Blue Force, moored in the harbour, to announce their unity.
He told reporters: ‘As always, we have had a very good meeting. As always, there's a very good atmosphere and now we are all together.’
‘We are unified and we are in a position to go now to the president of the FIA saying very constructively and in a very clear way what is the position of FOTA.’