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Testing Limit Agreement Imminent!

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By Jonathan Noble Friday, March 3rd 2006, 12:50 GMT

Formula One teams are on the verge of reaching a compromise testing agreement for 2006, autosport.com has learned, with Ferrari finally agreeing to fall in line with their rival teams.

Ferrari stood alone last season in refusing to sign-up to the 30-day in-season limit that was agreed between the other nine teams. The Maranello outfit believed that it was more cost efficient to restrict testing through a mileage limit rather than a day limit.

Although Ferrari's insistence on the matter appeared to have scuppered any chance of a deal being struck for this year, with some team's arguing they would not agree to a limit for 2006 unless every team signed up, moves have since taken place to find a compromise solution.

Autosport.com understands that a provisional deal has now been struck between teams and that a document is being circulated in a bid to get every outfit's signature of approval before a deadline of next Monday. The deal will only stand if all of F1's 11 teams approve the limitation.

It is understood that Ferrari, Renault, Honda and Williams have all so far put their signature to the deal, with other teams expected to do so imminently.
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That would be nice for all teams to reach parity on this subject. In the past, when Ferrari was exclusively for Bridgestone, they were at a disadvantage in tire testing. But then again, they created that situation, no sympathy from me. With the tire companies on about an equal footing now, Ferrari are no longer in the previous precarious situation, and going to do the sane and honourable thing.
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Ferrari's excuse was always that, that they were the only team on Bridgestones that were any good and had to break the agreement. But this year they even breached the voluntarily agreement, with Williams and Toyota running on Bridgestones. Also it is five teams on bridgestones and five teams on michelin (exlcuding Super Aguri because they were so late to enter) and they still broke the agreement. Ferrari does not like to play fair in my opinion.
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Maybe you need to read the article again M3_lover. Everyone is testing as much as they can and no-one is sticking to any limits at the moment because an agreement hasn't yet officially been met my all parties concerned. If you are going to get picky then Honda too have broken an agreement to only test in Europe. As soon as this agreement is made then I have no doubt that all teams will stick to it. It is possible that an agreement can now be reached because Bridgestone now operates with two more front running teams.
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They tested during the summer break.
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m3_lover wrote:They tested during the summer break.
Were Williams and Toyota using Bridgestone tyres during the Summer break?!
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