FIA divulge McLaren drivers' secrets
14 September 2007
The FIA has revealed the email content between Fernando Alonso and Pedro de la Rosa that led to McLaren being excluded from the constructors' championship and heavily fined for spying on Ferrari.
It is confirmed that both drivers got the information through suspended chief designer Mike Coughlan and were aware that the source of the data was former Ferrari protagonist Nigel Stepney. The emails, which were exchanged over the course of three months, concerned details of the Ferraris' brakes, method of tyre inflation and weight distribution.
"The emails show unequivocally that both Mr Alonso and Mr de la Rosa received confidential Ferrari information via Mike Coughlan," the FIA document read. "Both drivers knew that this information was confidential Ferrari information and that both knew that the information was being received by Coughlan from Nigel Stepney."
According to the FIA's findings, de la Rosa wrote in an email to Alonso on 25 Mrach. "All the information from Ferrari is very reliable. It comes from Nigel Stepney, their former chief mechanic - I don't know what post he holds now. He's the same person who told us in Australia that Kimi (Raikkonen) was stopping in lap 18. He's very friendly with Mike Coughlan, our chief designer and he told him that."
The FIA knew at the original hearing in July that McLaren personnel had received data from Ferrari but what prompted the world motorsport council to punish McLaren this time was the intention to use the data received. De la Rosa said he wanted to test Ferrari's weight distribution in the McLaren simulator whilst Alonso was thought it important that McLaren tried out the same gas to inflate its tyres. Coughlan said he was "looking at something similar" when de la Rosa asked for details of Ferrari's braking system.
Therefore the FIA included: "The evidence leads the WMSC to conclude that some degree of sporting advantage was obtained, though it may forever be impossible to quantify that advantage in concrete terms."
The FIA added that it will not punish the Woking-based team's drivers as "primary responsibility lies with McLaren, and also because McLaren's drivers were offered individual sanction."
Nếu Mclaren bị loại thì F1 còn có gì để mà xem??? ngoài Massa và Kimi tự đua với nhau hả 
