World motor sport chief Max Mosley said on Saturday he believed the troubled sport of Formula One would get back on track despite the 'posturing' of eight rebel Formula One teams planning a breakaway.

Despite Friday's announcement from the Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) that they have reached a decision to create a breakaway series, Mosley was adamant a compromise can be reached before the first race of the 2010 season.

Mosley, the president of the International Automobile Federation (FIA), told reporters: "I don't take it as seriously as some people do because I know that it is all posturing and posing.

"It is all about personalities and power and who can grab what from whom, which is easy when nothing is at stake, but when it gets to the first race and it is 'make your mind up' time, they will be there.

"It will all stop sometime between the beginning of 2010 and March 2010, the first race. All this will stop. It will all settle down and everyone will go racing."

The 69-year-old Briton added that it was not in the teams' interests to leave F1 and suggested their current plans for a new series were unrealistic.

"I am completely confident because in the end people do what it is in their interests to do," he told the BBC.

"Always with these things there is a compromise because they cannot afford not to run in the Formula One world championship, and we would be very reluctant to have a Formula One orld championship without them.

"So we are nine months away. Everybody can posture and pose, but we all know that when it gets to Melbourne 2010 there will be a F1 world championship and everyone who can be in it will be in it."

Mosley also took a swipe at Renault boss Italian Flavio Briatore and accused him of trying to set himself up as the new commercial ringmaster for the sport.

"It is not greed, it is more about power," he said about the row. "There are one or two individuals... well there is one individual who fancies himself as the Bernie [Ecclestone]. Whether he could do the job or not I don't know."

When asked to identify the individual, Mosley said: "I think Flavio Briatore sees himself as the Bernie. He is fully entitled to that view, but I think Bernie would feel 'if he wants my business, or CVC's business, then he should come and buy it, he can't just take it'.

"As far as the governing body is concerned, I don't know whether any of them actually want to make the rules, because they can never agree on the rules. And when they do agree on them, they disagree on what they mean.

"The famous double diffuser was entirely drawn up by the teams and then we had to settle who was right in their interpretation of the rules which they had drawn up. There is not a lot of future in that. This is what it is all about - certain people would like certain positions and you can understand that, but there are correct and incorrect ways to get it."

Asked about the legal action that the FIA is about to launch against the teams, Mosley said: "The thing is we have got very good legal advice and it is very strong and very clear, so we are very confident."