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McLaren-Ferrari spy scandal draws to an end

The two-year-old Stepneygate saga – long and complex enough to rival any of the Icelandic sagas – is finally over. A court in Modena, Italy has smacked four McLaren employees with six-figure fines: senior engineers Rod Taylor, Jonathan Neale, and Paddy Lowe are on the hook for €150,000 each (around $190,000 USD); chief designer Mike Coughlan got hit with a €180,000 fine (nearly $230,000). The only thing left to decide: Who is actually going to pay the bill. Reports indicate that McLaren will pay the senior engineers' ... Read more →

The Stepneygate postmortem -- what really happened in the F1 espionage scandal Jonathon Ramsey

Wired has posted a lengthy and thorough dissection of what really happened in last year's Stepneygate F1 scandal. The affair turned Ferrari an even more scarlet red, sucked $100,000,000 from ...

McLaren mea culpa: we're sorry about Stepneygate, and Ferrari was right Jonathon Ramsey

During the Stepneygate scandal over the course of the 2007 Formula 1 season, more than one critic accused the FIA of being on a witch hunt against McLaren. Based on what McLaren said it knew, and what ...

BREAKING - Alonso to Ferrari for $40 MIL Frank Filipponio

We're going to call this one a rumor for at least a little while, but wow. We just got wind of this monster deal that would really cause a major stir in the already tumultuous world of Formula One. ...

"Stepneygate" verdict reached: McLaren stripped of '07 championship points, fined $100 million Alex Nunez

The ongoing "Stepneygate" espionage scandal that has embroiled Formula 1 this summer has drawn to a conclusion (for the time being, at least), and the World Motor Sport Council has meted out some ...

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Rumormill: McLaren facing exclusion from 2007 F1 Championship 2 years ago on Autoblog

Thursday, September 13th, the World Motor Sport Council will meet to decide on whether McLaren should be punished for industrial espionage in the Stepneygate affair. What had been winding its way to a peaceful conclusion has now been blown back open with the recent revelation that the drivers ...

Stepneygate explained: A primer on the F1 espionage scandal 2 years ago on Autoblog

In case you're trying to get up to speed on the whole Formula One espionage case, we were tipped by our buddy Jay that GrandPrix.com has a pretty good summary. Although much of what we've reported already is about the FIA hearings, this gives a pretty good outline of the events behind the case and a ...

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