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F1 EXCLUSIVE: McLaren Listened to Ferrari Radio, Says Raikkonen
Written by: Adam Cooper   http://www.speedtv.com
09/13/2007
Spa, Belgium
 
Raikkonen wrote that during his time as a McLaren driver the silver team "systematically" listened to the Scuderia's radio transmissions. (LAT Photo) » More Photos

One of the key submissions to the World Motor Sport Council on Thursday came from Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen, we can reveal.

The Ferrari driver stated in writing that while he was at McLaren from 2002 until 2006 the team systematically listened to Ferrari's radio transmissions, which are supposed to be scrambled.

This was put to Ron Dennis in Paris on Thursday, and reportedly a long silence followed before he came up with a reply.

Intriguingly, the Kimi evidence was not part of the report released by the FIA today, and thus has not reached the public domain until now.

Ironically in July Mika Salo revealed to a Finnish newspaper
that when at Ferrari in 1999 he regularly received transcripts of Mika Hakkinen's radio conversations.

Unfortunately for Salo he was driving a Ferrari at the Spa 24 Hours the week that story emerged. A "correction" was soon sent from Maranello explaining what the Finn had meant to say was that in those primitive days sometimes teams accidentally overheard the conversations of rivals…



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