Showing posts with label Spy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spy. Show all posts
Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 by Rezo Melikishvili
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FIA president Max Mosley has warned that any Formula One team found guilty of spying in the future can expect to be kicked out of the championship.McLaren were fined £50m and lost all their constructors' championship points after the 2007 spying controversy, but their drivers stayed in the title race.
"Next time, I don't think they would stay in the championship," Mosley said.
"In McLaren's case everybody said 'Oh, $100m'. The alternative was to exclude them. That'd have been more expensive."
Despite their team's punishment, McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso were allowed to stay in the 2007 drivers' championship, finishing second and third respectively behind Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen.
Mosley warned teams that no repeat of the spying scandal would be tolerated next season.
"You can never stop what someone has got in his head, but we can stop the transfer of information in written or electronic form," said Mosley.
"If you are prepared to check, and we have demonstrated that we are, then somebody using such information would be very unwise because in a modern F1 team you cannot do it without leaving traces and we will find those traces."
Posted on Thursday, September 6, 2007 by George S.
The International Automobile Federation has issued a statement according to which, the federation had summoned their World Motor Sport Council again for a hearing in Paris on September 13th to consider the development of a Ferrari-McLaren spy case.The meeting on the 13th is in effect replacing the appeal hearing, which has been filed by Ferrari after the WMSC decided not to punish this year's leading team in July.
The situation up to date is that McLaren was found to be in possession of Ferrari's confidential 780 page material. However, as the WMSC has found, the team has not benefited from it in the championship battle. FIA's representative has mentioned that new evidence had emerged in the spy case but the representative has not made any comments.
The bottom line is that if McLaren is found guilty, the team may get disqualified not only from this, 2007 season, but from the 2008 season as well. So, quite much is at stake for the McLaren-Mercedes team, which at the moment is leading the constructors' championship by 11 points to Ferrari.
Finally, you may like to read the following articles about the spy case:
McLaren face second Stepneygate hearing by Planet-F1.com
UPDATE 1-F1 body says has new evidence in spy case by Reuters UK
McLaren and Hamilton face fresh threat from Ferrari by The Independent
Ferrari say truth will out in F1 spy hearing by GUARDIAN
Hamilton Dream Under Threat by Daily Express
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