Motor Racing: McLaren claim Renault have 33 secret files | Motor sport | Guardian Unlimited Sport
An anonymous briefing leaked to the Guardian has suggested that Renault's alleged illegal acquisition of technical data from their formula one rivals McLaren could rival the so-called "Spygate" affair in impact. McLaren were fined over £50m by the FIA and lost their constructors' championship points as a result of illegally acquiring Ferrari data and the governing body will consider the Renault case when it meets on December 6-7.
Neither McLaren nor Renault were available for a reaction last night, but it appears that the main controversy surrounds the sheer volume of information allegedly in the possession of the French carmaker. In March 2006 it is claimed in the briefing document that 33 files of confidential technical information belonging to McLaren were copied on to 11 floppy disks, which were loaded on to Renault F1's computer system in September, 2006.
11-23-2007, 03:28 PM
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