Max Mosley has dismissed suggestions that next year's rule changes for qualifying could increase costs, according to Reuters.   McLaren's Adrian Newey had commented to the BBC that the new regulations had not been thought through and voiced the possibility that richer teams could build special lightweight cars for one-lap qualifying.

"The claim that teams will build special qualifying cars which will drive up costs by millions is nonsense," the FIA president told Reuters.

"In any event, teams have to race the car that was scrutineered. If there were substantial differences between the car used for qualifying and the car used for the race, the team would have problems with the scrutineers."

"Teams already change a number of elements on the car for qualifying, hence the difference in lap times between qualifying and the race.

"The best advice is that anything that could be done for a single lap during the course of one hour could be done for two, three or even four single laps -- i.e. for the previous system."

Team principals, having agreed changes to sporting regulations on 28 October, will meet again on 4 December to discuss amendments to the technical regulations which might reduce costs.