BMW-Sauber will have to wait until the end of the 2010 Formula One season to change their name, a spokesman for the Swiss-based team said on Thursday.
The governing International Automobile Federation (FIA)'s Formula One commission had agreed at a meeting this week that they could change their name at the end of the championship, the spokesman added.
Unless there is a change of ownership, the new name is likely to return to being just Sauber -- their identity before being taken over by BMW [ Images ] in 2005.
German manufacturer BMW, who formerly owned the team, quit Formula One at the end of last year and Sauber are now powered by Ferrari [ Images ] engines despite entering the championship under their previous name.
The team, with Spanish driver Pedro de la Rosa and Japan's [ Images ] Kamui Kobayashi, have scored just one point from eight races ahead of Sunday's European Grand Prix [ Images ] in Valencia.
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