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F1: FIA Reveals McLaren Judgment Details
Written by: Adam Cooper
RACER Magazine   http://www.racer.com/speedtv
09/13/2007 - 07:00 PM
Paris, France
 
Via Coughlan, de la Rosa is on the record requesting information from Stepney to apply during McLaren's testing sessions, according to the document released by the FIA today. (LAT Photo) ยป More Photos

The FIA has published a 14-page document detailing the findings of the World Motor Sport Council in respect of McLaren.

The document has Max Mosley's name at its conclusion, which suggests that he has personally overseen every word of it.

The document outlines the new evidence that led to Thursday's reconvening of the WMSC to discuss the spy saga. As previously revealed, much of it revolves around contact between Mike Coughlan, McLaren test driver Pedro de la Rosa, and Fernando Alonso.

Copies of emails from de la Rosa are reproduced, including messages where he asked Coughlan about Ferrari's weight distribution. In another he tells Alonso of information that came direct from Nigel Stepney, including mention of Stepney telling Coughlan on what lap Kimi Raikkonen would stop in the Australian GP.

There is also a discussion of a gas that Ferrari used to inflate its tires to reduce the internal temperature and blistering. Although in the FIA document the details have been censored, this is believed to have been nitrogen.
Outside experts will be tasked with making sure there is no improper red among the silver next year. ยป More Photos



Get the inside story of the people, science and history of Formula 1 each month in RACER. Tony Dodgins looks into the complex issues behind the McLaren/Ferrari spy scandal in our October issue, on sale now.


In addition to Coughlan's contacts with de la Rosa, the WMSC also heard more details about the degree of contact between Coughlan and Stepney, thanks to information provided by the Italian police.

It is claimed that "at least 288 SMS messages and 35 telephone calls appear to have passed between Coughlan and Stepney between 11 March 2007 and 3 July 2007."

De la Rosa claims that he did not discuss the information he gleaned with anyone else within the McLaren team.

However the WMSC clearly does
not believe him and its conclusions appear to be based largely on the supposition that he must have talked to others. The same goes for Coughlan, and the WMSC clearly believes that he was aided in doing his duties for McLaren by information that he had gleaned from Stepney.

Key conclusions include the following:

• Coughlan had more information than previously appreciated and was receiving information in a systematic manner over a period of months;
• The information has been disseminated, at least to some degree (eg to de la Rosa and Alonso), within McLaren;
• The information being disseminated within the McLaren team included not only highly sensitive technical information but also secret information regarding Ferrari's sporting strategy;
• De la Rosa, in the performance of his functions at McLaren, requested and received secret Ferrari information from a source which he knew to be illegitimate and expressly stated that his purpose was to test in the simulator;
• The secret information in question was shared with Alonso;
• There was a clear intention on the part of a number of McLaren personnel to use some of the Ferrari confidential information in its own testing. If this was not in fact carried into effect it was only because there were technical reasons not to do so;
• Coughlan's role within McLaren (as now understood by the WMSC) put him in a position in which his knowledge of the secret Ferrari information would have influenced him in the performance of his duties.

McLaren argued that there was no evidence of Ferrari intellectual property featuring on its car. However the WMSC said that "neither the finding of a breach nor the imposition of a penalty require evidence of McLaren having directly incorporated Ferrari technology."

In addition the WMSC said that it had concluded that "some degree of sporting advantage was obtained, though it may forever be impossible to quantify that advantage in concrete terms."