08-11-2007, 05:29 PM
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Renault have been summoned before Formula One's governing body to answer a charge of possessiing confidential McLaren technical information.
The team are to appear before the FIA world motorsport council on 6 December.
The move comes two months after McLaren were fined $100m (£47.5m) and thrown out of the constructors' championship on a similar charge.
The information included "the layout and critical dimensions of the McLaren F1 car", an FIA statement said.
The FIA made the announcement on the day it emerged that its inspectors had visited McLaren as part of their investigation to ensure no Ferrari ideas would be on the 2008 McLaren car.
The charges levelled against Renault - news of which emerged in September around the time of McLaren's punishment - are remarkably similar to those McLaren faced.
A statement said Renault were accused of "unauthorised possession" between September 2006 and October 2007 "of documents and confidential information belonging to McLaren".
That, it added, included "but [was] not limited to, the layout and critical dimensions of the McLaren F1 car, together with details of the McLaren fuelling system, gear assembly, oil cooling system, hydraulic control system and a novel suspension component used by the 2006 and 2007 McLaren F1 cars."[/quote]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport...one/7085098.stm
Renault have been summoned before Formula One's governing body to answer a charge of possessiing confidential McLaren technical information.
The team are to appear before the FIA world motorsport council on 6 December.
The move comes two months after McLaren were fined $100m (£47.5m) and thrown out of the constructors' championship on a similar charge.
The information included "the layout and critical dimensions of the McLaren F1 car", an FIA statement said.
The FIA made the announcement on the day it emerged that its inspectors had visited McLaren as part of their investigation to ensure no Ferrari ideas would be on the 2008 McLaren car.
The charges levelled against Renault - news of which emerged in September around the time of McLaren's punishment - are remarkably similar to those McLaren faced.
A statement said Renault were accused of "unauthorised possession" between September 2006 and October 2007 "of documents and confidential information belonging to McLaren".
That, it added, included "but [was] not limited to, the layout and critical dimensions of the McLaren F1 car, together with details of the McLaren fuelling system, gear assembly, oil cooling system, hydraulic control system and a novel suspension component used by the 2006 and 2007 McLaren F1 cars."[/quote]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport...one/7085098.stm
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