Hamburg  - Although all members of the Formula One Teams' Association (FOTA) have now submitted their entries to the FIA for the 2010 championship, the organization's vice-president John Howett says that agreement is still not a closed deal.

"I'm not sure that it is. It's just the clear position of the teams," the president of Toyota motorsport told autosport. com, noting that the entries are conditional on a new Concorde Agreement being signed by all parties before 12th June.

Howett revealed that FOTA have yet to get a response from FIA about the regulations being based on 2009 rules, identical for all competitors and amended in accordance with proposals that FOTA has submitted to motorsport's ruling body.

"There have been some informal discussions on the technical content on 2010 but I don't think as yet we've had a formal acknowledgement, said Howett.

"There are a whole number of constructive proposals. It's quite a comprehensive document and it's probably not appropriate to comment," he added.

"We're all looking to working collaboratively and proactively with the FIA and to really stop all of this political positioning and focusing on improving the sport. That's what FOTA is really proven to do this year, with more availability of drivers, trying to improve TV coverage, more telemetry data.

"We just want to compete on an even playing field, we are all capable of managing our businesses constructively, we're all open to discuss on how we can integrate new entrants in a professional and correct way. The one thing that's always missed is that we need to grow the cake and we need to understand how much of the remainder of the revenue is re-invested in the sport." (dpa)