OCTOBER 23, 2004

Sauber signs

With five minutes to go before Paul Stoddart broke the news about the agreement of all the teams to cut costs with control tyres and reduced testing, Peter Sauber decided that he had to sign the document, giving the proposal nine votes out of 10 and leaving Ferrari, Sauber's engine supplier, completely isolated on the issue of cost-cutting. In addition Ferrari is left as the block on the British and French Grands Prix.