Talk:2007 Formula One espionage controversy

message: Here's a reference to show the jugement was unanimous: http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns19461.html
--Don Speekingleesh 11:37, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WMSC meeting 

message: The highly questionable inclusion of Dennis' approach to Ferrari with intent on rapprochement suggests back-handed motives and a two-faced attitude.  Is this really appropriate?  This event/agreement proves nothing in relation to the subject at hand - it is circumstantial (if that even) evidence to suggest Dennis knew anything and would be inadmissible in a court of law so why is it there?  What is perhaps relevant and not included is the timescale of Coughlan demanding to be released from his McLaren contract.  For months before he claimed to have got the Ferrari information he was desperately trying to leave Woking (I believe grandprix.com recently published the full details of this).  Now, documents found in his home, not office/resorting to sending his wife down the high street to copy them aside (have McLaren run out of filing space and can't they afford a photocopier?!), this still doesn't sound like a case of team involvement. Unless you have a vivid imagination and/or a red jacket. -- 62.25.106.209 18:02, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timeline 

message: maclaren will not race in the next 2 years, see it on the bbc.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.46.78.131 (talk) 16:42, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Current BBC headline: McLaren sweat on spy row verdict. No verdict yet, I'm listening in real time... Pyrope 16:45, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

text: Just to clarify this, the BBC reports Bernie Ecclestone as saying McClaren were almost banned from competing in this season and next season's championships, as can be seen here. Tx17777 18:39, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Subsequent reporting, notably after the death of Max Mosley earlier this year, has Mosley wanting to ban McLaren for two years but €cc£e$tone talking him out of it and imposing the $100 million fine instead. “$5 million for the offence; 95 million for Ron (Dennis) being a cunt”, according to Mr Mosley. Mr Larrington (talk) 01:10, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  2 Years kick out 

message: I'm vaguely sure that I've heard of this being referred to as 'spygate', but the article has no mention of this, is it prudent to include that it may be referred to as that?
On a secondary note, which silly monkey named it spygate, they've misused the -gate suffix. Comradeash 14:07, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course they have. It is commonly referred to as "Spygate" (see various recent editions of Autosport Magazine, specifically Fifth Column by Nigel Roebuck and F1's Inside Line by Mark Hughes, also sometimes "Stepneygate". mattbuck 14:19, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

text: I don't know if it's actually called "Spygate" or not, but the term doesn't redirect here anymore as it's now the title of the article about the New England Patriots controversy. Pmr2011 (talk) 22:29, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spygate? 

message: There's an uncited statement on here that McLaren will have the last pit garage next year.  Does anyone have confirmation of this?  I thought they would still be ahead of Prodrive?  Kelpin 12:54, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Humm, I really don't know about that. They'll be next to Prodrive certainly. However, it's uncited for one reason - it's not an official FIA thing. We believe this will be true, because they'll finish last in the championship, and pit lane order is done by championship order. However, I don't know how an excluded team comes against a nonexistant team. mattbuck 13:00, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I know I may be getting a little bit ahead of Myself, but if Renault face a similar penalty or possesing Mclaren information as McLaren did for possesing Ferrari information (and are excluded|, who will get the last garage then?? Or will the FIA have to prove that the information was passed on/seen by other individuals in Renault?Random Jack 16:00, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the comment as it is entirely speculative. Until the FIA make a ruling there is no way of knowing how they might proceed, that much should be clear from their rather random set of decisions taken this year! Pyrope 16:09, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

text: That comment should not have been removed, the FIA did issue a ruling placing McLaren team at the last pit Garage. Since then Ron Dennis negotiated a special dispensation with F1 Supremo Bernie Ecclestone to be placed in position 4 or 5 up the pit lane, which they used in the season opener (Australia) and in Malaysia too. By race 3 (Bahrain) FIA president Max Mosely had insisted that McLaren are placed in their last pit Garage, and indeed they were. Given the power struggle going on behind the scenes (including the Max Mosely sting / smear campaign) I wouldn't be surprised to see Max Overruled on that and Ron Dennis satisfied, eventually.  Eddyholland (talk) 10:44, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Eddy, look at the date on my comment. That was made long before the FIA made the ruling so at the time I made the edit the statement was speculative. Feel free to add in confirmed, cited information that you think relevant. Pyrope 20:13, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last Pit Garage 

message: Who is the $100million actually paid to?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.133.86.252 (talk) 03:13, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Fine money is paid to a special development fund of the FIA, to be used for development of motorsport and safety. FIA grandees - including Mercedes motorsport boss Norbert Haug and (current) Ferrari boss Jean Todt - are trustees of that fund Eddyholland (talk) 10:39, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fine Money 

message: I have marked the claim on the timeline that "15 Renault F1 employees knew of the McLaren data" as . If no sources are quoted within the next few days, I will remove the information. Random Jack 11:01, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Renault Investigation 

message: The World Motorsport Council has "authorised the FIA to issue libel proceedings against English newspaper The Sunday Times, which ran an article claiming that the FIA was engaged in a witch-hunt against the McLaren-Mercedes team."  The article was written by former F1 driver and ITV commentator Martin Brundle who has reacted to the decision in his latest column. 
Do you think it's worth mentioning this in the article? AlexJ (talk) 14:40, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely! Mighty Antar (talk) 20:01, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: FIA to sue The Times over spygate - include?

message: There are quite a few new related articles on the subject:       --Sporti (talk) 07:28, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: More related news

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thread_title:  Dead link 

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thread_title:  Dead link 3 

message: A botched first citation raises nominal concern over the rest, but I've got to get some sleep before I look at anything else.
The first citation linked to the wrong page at autosport.com. With regard to Nigel Stepney as a member of the Benetton-Ferrari "Dream Team", the right Autosport article was named (Analysis: the remarkable Stepneygate saga), but the wrong article was linked (Analysis: Ferrari see Coughlan in court) and the author corresponding to the mistakenly-linked article (Biranit Goren) was credited. 
The link now points to the right article, credited to the proper author (Adam Cooper). The citation has been further adjusted to reflect the associated access date, -archive URL, and -archive date. In all likelihood, it was an isolated error but I won't chance uncovering more problems at this hour.
Patronanejo (talk) 10:31, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Faulty citation 

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