With the announcement of the split between the FIA and the FOTA teams the AT&T Williams team has made it clear that they are committed to the FIA Formula 1 series dismissing any suggestions it could join the FOTA series in 2010.

Williams CEO Adam Parr made it clear on Friday in a press conference for the British Grand Prix that his focus was solely on remaining in F1.

Parr said :"Williams is an F1 team. That is all there is to say." Despite the benefits of the that manufacturers had brought to F1, Parr made it clear that the Williams team would honour their commitments it made to the FIA.

Parr added: "We recognise what the manufacturers have brought to F1, tremendous status, as Frank [Williams] says, fantastic reliable engines and they have been in many cases very good friends to this team over decades," he explained.

"So it is awfully difficult to find ourselves on the other side of the fence. To some extent we are not bystanders, because that would be disingenuous, but I would say we have contracts in place with Bernie and with Max as well, and we enter the championship in light of those contracts."

Parr made it clear that the Williams team was not in a position to follow the likes of the Brawn team in signing up to the FOTA series.

"I am impressed that Ross [Brawn], as of next year an independent team that has to raise money in the way we do, feels that he has the ability to do that in another championship. We simply could not," added Parr.

"There is no way we could walk away from our contracts and raise the sort of money we would need to compete with manufacturers and the Red Bulls, and so forth. So we have a mutual dependence with the FIA and with FOM, that is enshrined in contracts that we will honour."

in the same interview Parr spoke of how difficult things were when they signed up with the FIA.

Parr added: "I think that the moment when we were asked to leave the room in the FOTA meeting a few weeks back was absolutely dreadful and something we will always remember with great sadness, but I don't know what we could have done differently. Let's just be clear of one thing: we are the only team in Formula One this year that will raise money without asking its shareholders for one penny, the only team in Formula One.

I'm not saying that others don't depend on sponsorship, because they do, but every other team in Formula One raises a significant proportion of their budget from their shareholder or shareholders. We can't do that. When I look at the future, the past few years that we've been through in Williams are just not sustainable, it cannot continue like that for us. Anyway, we are where we are; we've made some tough choices, we've lost friends as a result of that perhaps but I don't think we could have done anything differently. We take no pleasure in it but that's the facts."