Not wanting to go into the McLaren appeal hearing in Paris too much but this little nugget in the Times caught my eye:
McLaren had submitted papers in advance of the hearing making clear they were going to rely on the Liuzzi-Sutil case at the Japanese GP last year as a precedent. In this case the […]

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 McLaren have - inexplicably - been moved back up the pitlane for this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix, after being dumped down the order in Bahrain.
“Technically, it’s an advantage as far as we can see and where we are in the pit lane doesn’t affect the races,” team boss Ron Dennis said in Bahrain. “If there […]

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Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen set the pace at Valencia testing yesterday, ahead of Nico Rosberg, driving the new Williams, and the McLaren duo of Heikki Kovalainen and Pedro de la Rosa. Former Williams driver Alex Wurz made his track début as Honda test driver.
Nigel Stepney, the man at the centre of last year’s spygate […]

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Most people would consider a $100 million fine and losing all their 2007 constructor’s points a pretty harsh punishment for a F1 team but then most people aren’t Jean Todt and Luca di Montezemolo, who apparently won’t be satisfied until Ron Dennis gets publicly flogged.
“Should Ron Dennis be banned? We can’t rule in place of […]

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Former Renault F1 driver Heikki Kovalainen has been confirmed as a McLaren driver for 2008, ending Pedro de la Rosa’s hopes of a return to a race drive.
McLaren F1 CEO Martin Whitmarsh said: “We had a number of options open to us and as always we want to make sure that we have the most […]

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The Renault F1 team have confirmed their 2008 line-up, with the return of double world champion Fernando Alonso and promotion of test driver Nelson Piquet Jr.
Speaking about the announcement Flavio Briatore said: “Fernando and Nelsinho will form one of the most exciting driver line up of 2008. We are delighted to be welcoming Fernando back […]

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Nico Rosberg has signed a new contract with the Williams F1 team for the 2008 and 2009 seasons, ending speculation that he was in line to replace Fernando Alonso at McLaren.
Martin Brundle, under fire from the FIA over an earlier column in The Sunday Times, has launched a robust counterblast in today’s column.
As a […]

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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 […]

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Renault have been found guilty of being in possession of McLaren intellectual property at a hearing in Monaco today, however the team will not be penalised.
“An extraordinary meeting of the World Motor Sport Council was held in Monaco on December 6, 2007,” read the FIA statement.
“The World Council found Renault F1 to be in breach […]

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Renault are considering taking legal action against McLaren if they are cleared of spying charges in Monaco today.
Speaking to British newspaper The Daily Express, (Flavio) Briatore said: “A lot of very bad things have been said about us by McLaren in the last few weeks, very damaging.
“We will be cleared and once the verdict is […]

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