Flavio Briatore has confirmed that the issue of standard engines in formula one is no longer on the table.

Despite the FIA putting out a tender to become F1's sole engine supplier in 2010, an alternative agenda for cost savings was apparently agreed at the recent Geneva meeting between FOTA chiefs and Max Mosley.

Renault boss Briatore said in interview with Germany's Welt am Sonntag newspaper that, instead of standard engines, F1 will "probably" pursue the route of a future engine formula that, "on the basis of costs, will not go beyond certain development borders".

A similar strategy will be followed for transmissions, Briatore explained, with the technologies to be made available by the carmaker teams to privateers "at a reasonable price".

Source: GMM