Ferrari have derided the decision to allow USF1 and Campos Meta to be included in the 2010 Formula One season, pinning most of the blame on the former FIA president Max Mosley.

Both teams are struggling to be ready in time for next month's opening Grand Prix of the season in Bahrain and Ferrari are baffled as to why Mosley allowed them to gain entry to the sport.

Toyota, Honda and BMW have all left Formula One in the last 12 months, with Ferrari lamenting in a column on their official website: "Campos Meta's shareholder and management structure has been transformed, with a sudden cash injection from a munificent white knight (Bernie Ecclestone), well used to this sort of last-minute rescue deal.

"However, the beneficiaries of this generosity might find the knight in question expects them to fulfil the role of loyal vassal.

"The 13th team, USF1, appears to have gone into hiding in Charlotte, North Carolina, to the dismay of those like the Argentinian (driver Jose Maria) Lopez, who thought he had found his way into the Formula One paddock and now has to start all over again.

"Amazingly, they still have the impudence to claim that everything is hunky-dory under the starry, stripy sky.

"This is the legacy of the holy war waged by the former FIA president (Mosley). The cause in question was to allow smaller teams to get into Formula One.

"This is the outcome. Two teams will limp into the start of the championship, a third is being pushed into the ring by an invisible hand, and, as for the fourth, well, you would do better to call on Missing Persons to locate it.

"In the meantime, we have lost two constructors along the way, in the shape of BMW and Toyota, while at Renault, there's not much left other than the name. Was it all worth it?"

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