Now Renault Summoned By FIA To Answer Spying Allegations

November 8th, 2007

Now Renault Summoned By FIA To Answer Spying Allegations

Hm… Sweet, it is Ron against Flavio now

Ron Dennis Flavio Briatore

FIA have summoned Renault to appear at a hearing of FIA World Motor Sport Council:

‘Representatives of the Renault F1 Team have been requested to appear before a hearing of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Monaco on Thursday, December 6, 2007.

‘The team representatives have been called to answer a charge that between September 2006 and October 2007, in breach of Article 151c of the International Sporting Code, the Renault F1 Team had unauthorised possession of documents and confidential information belonging to Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, including, but 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.’

Back in September when the allegations surfaced for the first time, Flavio Briatore’s response was:

“We told the FIA what we had, so there’s no problem. I don’t know what Dennis refers to, he’s throwing stones a bit everywhere. We are calm, no problem at all.”