This price is based on four teams signing up and includes full technical support at all races and official tests, plus 30,000 km of testing.

The annual cost will reduce if more teams take up the option, for example to €5.84 million Euro per team with eight teams. It will further reduce if less than 30,000 km of testing is required. Neither engine nor transmission will be badged.

As suggested in my letter of 18 November, teams participating in the 2010 Championship would then have three options:

The above.

The right to build an engine themselves, identical to the above, having been supplied with all the necessary technical information.

The right to continue to use their existing engine, with the current ban on development and requirement for engine parity still in place.

Teams opting for one of the latter two options would nevertheless use the XR transmission.

In combination with the programme of cost reductions for the chassis, race weekend and team home base outlined in my letter of 18 November, these arrangements have a number of advantages. These include:

Enabling the independent teams to survive in the current difficult economic climate.

Facilitating the replacement of a manufacturer team if we suffer additional losses.

Stabilising Formula One while new road relevant technologies are introduced together with a state of the art high tech engine, which could be in Formula One as early as 2013 should the car industry by then be in a position to fund its development.

Avoiding any change to the Formula One spectacle and keeping the technology at current levels.

These arrangements are on the basis that at least four teams enter into contracts to use the power train described above, and do so no later than close of business on Thursday 11 December 2008.

In the event of fewer than four teams signing up, the FIA may still proceed but the price on offer will vary. The supply contracts will be with Cosworth but in the first instance teams are requested to make their intentions known to my office.

Yours sincerely,
Max Mosley

E.A, Source: GMM / FIA
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