One of the teams that unsuccessfully applied for a placꦡe on the F1 grid for the 2010 season has lodged a complaint with the European Commission over the way the selection process was carried out.

The FIA announced back in June that USF1, Campos Meta F1 and Manor Grand Prix had been sel💛ected as the three new entries for the 2010 season, leaving a number of contenders disappointed - inclu🌱ding the likes of Prodrive and Lola, who were widely tipped amongst the favourites to secure a slot on the grid.

Howev﷽er, rather than from one of the more established racing teams, the complaint has come from the Serbian engineering company AMCO, which had planned to♏ enter a team named after its chief executive Zoran Stefanovic.

According the Daily Telegraph, the complaint centres around claims th꧙at the FIA broke competition law by insisting that teams looking to make the step int💛o F1 had to use engines supplied by Cosworth.

US𒐪F1, Campos and Manor will all use Cosworth engines for their entries, but AMCO - under the Stefan Grand Prix name - had intended to use an engine from one of the manufacturers currently involved in the sport before being 'forced' to sign with Cosworth to stand a chance of making into onto the grid.

Des♐pite that, AMCO failed to secure one of the three slots and now believes tha♑t the process should be carried out again as restricting potential entrants to the Cosworth engine 'is an act of limiting technical development, not just competition, and such restriction is blatantly damaging to Formula 1'.

"AMCO C🔜orporation was forced by the FIA to sign with Cosworth and AMCO is complaining because of that," the 'paper quotes the team's complaint as reading. "There is an element of a plot behind our back which are not capable of getting rid of without the Directorate General for Competition."

Former World Touring Car Championsh𓃲ip outfit N.Technology is also believed to have taken legal action over the selection process for the 2010 season.