renault say they didnt use it!

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http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/63873

but so do Mclaren. yet there was a suspicion they did. so therefore, Renault need to be fined £100m and removed from the 2007 constructors list and their car thoroughly searched by the FIA for Mclaren IP.

fair is fair is it not.

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whistleblowing flemke, just thinking, what if they went to say, spyker, what then? £50 fine, slap on the wrist, off you go, dont do it again?
maybe stepney should have gone to spyker instead of coughlin?

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Adrian W said:

Surely what is important now is why didnt Renault say something when the Mclaren judgment ws published, by waiting untill now they must be gulty of something else or if the FIA new earlier they must be!

well, Flavio sure did 'defend' and 'kiss up' to Mclaren a bit.

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andyps said:

stew-S160 said:

whistleblowing flemke, just thinking, what if they went to say, spyker, what then? £50 fine, slap on the wrist, off you go, dont do it again?
maybe stepney should have gone to spyker instead of coughlin?

I don't think there was any suggestion that McLaren were punished for whistleblowing about the illegal Ferrari floor. Even the FIA have not managed to punish anyone for informing them that a team was operating against the rules so it wouldn't have mattered if Stepney had told Spyker, who then told the FIA. Except that Spyker might have had to check with their engine supplier before reporting it so might have forgotten the next level of reporting.

forgot for a mo that ferrari supplied spykers engines, my bad.
my point was that had it been a smaller team doing the whistle blowing, none of what has happened would have happened. well, certainly not the way it has anyhow.