McLaren will have to wait until four weeks before the start of the 2008 F1 season to discover if their 2008 car is deemed legal, after the FIA decreed that other teams would be allowed to make representations at a further meeting on 14th February 2008.

Meanwhile, the FIA is to sue newspaper The Sunday Times for libel over a column written by Martin Brundle on 9 September 2007, just to further improve the image of the sport. As the column so eloquently states:

For me this has all the feel of a witch-hunt, driven by the very people who have a primary responsibility to the sport. At a time when we should be excitedly micro-analysing the performance of the contenders, we’re caught up in this story.

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Inside the paddock we can’t fathom how, previously, two Toyota F1 employees can be handed prison sentences for industrial espionage using Ferrari software, yet the FIA was not interested in getting involved, and how Colin Kolles from Spyker could walk down the pit lane with a drawing from rival Toro Rosso presented as evidence of cloned cars, yet the FIA took no action.