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rude-boy

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262 months

Monday 8th September 2008
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FIA Decisions Wiki said:
Spy Scandal 2007 - Ferrari competition (McLaren) Punished, Ferrari non-competition (Toyota) let off. Renault also let off, but for a completely different offence. ..an offence against McLaren.
I think it was Renault that was let off but not so certain that both weren't involved.

Toyota certainly didn't seem to get any FIA penalty for their F2002 (sorry TF103...)


Edited by rude-boy on Monday 8th September 11:50

flemke

23,485 posts

266 months

Monday 8th September 2008
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rude-boy said:
FIA Decisions Wiki said:
Spy Scandal 2007 - Ferrari competition (McLaren) Punished, Ferrari non-competition (Toyota) let off. Renault also let off, but for a completely different offence. ..an offence against McLaren.
I think it was Renault that was let off but not so certain that both weren't involved.

Toyota certainly didn't seem to get any FIA penalty for their F2002 (sorry TF103...)


Edited by rude-boy on Monday 8th September 11:50
What do you mean by "both weren't involved"?

jamieboy

5,929 posts

258 months

Monday 8th September 2008
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rude-boy said:
FIA Decisions Wiki said:
Spy Scandal 2007 - Ferrari competition (McLaren) Punished, Ferrari non-competition (Toyota) let off. Renault also let off, but for a completely different offence. ..an offence against McLaren.
I think it was Renault that was let off but not so certain that both weren't involved.

Toyota certainly didn't seem to get any FIA penalty for their FA2002 (sorry TF103...)
1. McLaren were receiving / using information from a mole within Ferrari - a live data feed, if you like. McLaren were punished for this.

2. An engineer left McLaren and started with Renault the following year, taking some information with him. Although apparently taken to the extreme in this case in terms of the amount of data he took with him, the general practice is pretty much standard within F1. Renault were not punished for this.

3. I'm not familiar with the details of the Toyota:Ferrari case as to whether they got information from current employees, as with McLaren, or whether it was former employees, as with Renault.

Unfortunately people tend to bundle them all up as if they're the same thing, when the McLaren:Ferrari and Renault:McLaren incidents were not.



Edited by jamieboy on Monday 8th September 12:06

rude-boy

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22,227 posts

262 months

Monday 8th September 2008
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Sorry, bad use of English.

(see: I ain't not done nothing guv wink )

My memory says that Renault were the ones with the MacMerc files loaded onto their computers, of this i am 99% certain. That said i am not so certain that Toyota weren't also implicated in last years fun and games, as well as their 2002/3 difficulties.

zac510

5,546 posts

235 months

Monday 8th September 2008
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OT-
Why don't you limit or split the list to just on-track driver incidents? Separating the steward's judgements from stuff like the spy scandals and regulation 'clarifications' (ie mass damper) that were settled outside of the race track.

Scuffers

20,887 posts

303 months

Monday 8th September 2008
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jamieboy said:
rude-boy said:
FIA Decisions Wiki said:
Spy Scandal 2007 - Ferrari competition (McLaren) Punished, Ferrari non-competition (Toyota) let off. Renault also let off, but for a completely different offence. ..an offence against McLaren.
I think it was Renault that was let off but not so certain that both weren't involved.

Toyota certainly didn't seem to get any FIA penalty for their FA2002 (sorry TF103...)
1. McLaren were receiving / using information from a mole within Ferrari - a live data feed, if you like. McLaren were punished for this.

2. An engineer left McLaren and started with Renault the following year, taking some information with him. Although apparently taken to the extreme in this case in terms of the amount of data he took with him, the general practice is pretty much standard within F1. Renault were not punished for this.

3. I'm not familiar with the details of the Toyota:Ferrari case as to whether they got information from current employees, as with McLaren, or whether it was former employees, as with Renault.

Unfortunately people tend to bundle them all up as if they're the same thing, when the McLaren:Ferrari and Renault:McLaren incidents were not.
Mostly right..

Toyota two got found guilty and finned etc by the courts (NON FIA)


fasteddie71

38 posts

216 months

Monday 8th September 2008
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I don't know why they didn't fine Ferrari for releasing the data in the first place. Oh now that I mention I do.... ha ha haha they're the ones in red car, it's all clear now, doctor fetch me my meds