Ferrari was unconditionally included on the official entry list for next year's F1 World Championship which was published this morning by the FIA, however the Maranello team hit back immediately with a press release saying that as far as it was concerned the conditions under which it lodged an entry were still valid.

With the hype growing towards the announcement of the entry list for 2010 this morning growing by the day, FIA President Max Moseley and the eight remaining FOTA teams met this week to try to thrash out a compromise. This morning the war of words in F1 continued with a press release posted by Ferrari on its ferrari.com website, titled "Chasing the Past". "The best season to collect mushrooms is autumn, as fans know," the statement started off. "In F1, the start of the summer seems to be the period when new – presumed - Formula 1 teams seem to pop up all over the world. Today the FIA will publish a list of the registered teams – or the teams the FIA considers to be registered – for next year’s Formula 1 Championship. Numerous new names popped up on the big stage of Formula 1 which are somehow only remembered by die-hard fans, because they were part of tragic accidents, like the one in Imola in 1994. Although over the last weeks one could watch brands being mentioned, which are only part of almanacs. In a massive research operation of the historical F1 pedigree, brands like March, Lotus and Brabham have been unearthed – or at least it has been tried, considering that the affair isn’t going too smoothly. The game might not last for long. It has to be told to the fans, the companies investing today and those who might invest tomorrow, the TV stations, which signed the multimillion contracts, what’s behind these names we heard over the last weeks. For example which engine can these teams use? We have to remember that as far as technological innovation is concerned, it’s not enough to have intelligent engineers, but you also need resources to invest, have the right research culture and not just a hit and run business approach. And as far as the discussion about some current teams is concerned - which are the fruit of the engagement of individuals - it has to be remembered that without the work of the manufacturers many of these teams would vanish from F1’s stage," the website posting concluded.

Then the FIA posted the official entry list for 2010 which included Ferrari, Red Bull and Toro Rosso as unconditional entries; all three have reportedly entered into contracts with the FIA previously, contacts which the governing body believes are still valid. The other five members of FOTA (BMW, Toyota, Brawn, McLaren and Renault) were also on the entry list however the statement from the FIA read: "These five teams have submitted conditional entries. The FIA has invited them to lift those conditions following further discussions to be concluded not later than close of business on Friday 19 June." The proposed stateside based Team US F1 headed by Peter Windsor and Ken Anderson was as expected included on the entry list, however there was surprise when the final two entries were lodged for Campos Grand Prix and Manor Grand Prix, the pair getting the nod over long-time race car constructor Lola and Dave Richards' Prodrive concern which was expected to enter F1 next year under the Aston Martin brand name.

As soon as the official entry list was published Ferrari issued a statement dismissing the unconditional nature of its entry and announcing that its conditions to take part next year, which focus around the proposed £40 million budget cap and a possible two-tier set of technical regulations, still stood. "Following publication of the list of entries for the 2010 Formula One World Championship," read the press release issued in Maranello, "which includes Ferrari as an unconditional entrant, Ferrari wishes to state the following: Ferrari submitted on 29 May 2009 an entry to the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship which is subject to certain conditions. As of today, these conditions have not been met; [and] notwithstanding this and despite Ferrari's previous written notice to the FIA not to do so, the FIA has included Ferrari as a unconditional participant in next year's Formula One World Championship. For the avoidance of any doubt, Ferrari reaffirms that it shall not take part in the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship under the regulations adopted by the FIA in violation of Ferrari's rights under a written agreement with the FIA."