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<blockquote data-quote="Salty25" data-source="post: 431787" data-attributes="member: 185281"><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">The World Motor Sport Council has ruled that McLaren <strong>did</strong> gain an advantage from an exchange of Ferrari data between then Ferrari engineer Nigel Stepney and McLaren chief designer Mike Coughlan.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">The WMSC have punished McLaren with the following penalities:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">o-O McLaren are BANNED from the 2007 World Constructors' Championship, all points gained are wiped.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">o-O McLaren are fined $US100,000,000 (£49.5m), including prize money and television contracts.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">o-O McLaren will have to make their 2008 car available for examination by the FIA prior to the 2008 season.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">However, McLaren driver Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton are still free to race and compete in the Drivers' Championship, and keep all the points gained in that Championship thus far.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">WMSC called the hearing after new evidence came to light:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">1) Email exchanges between Mike Coughlan (who was original given the Ferrari data by Nigel Stepney) and driver Fernando Alonso and Pedro de la Rosa - If proven, this contradicts McLaren's earlier defence that Coughlan never passed the data on to other McLaren staff.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">2) Italian police communication evidence which details telephone calls which took place between Coughlan and Stepney a long after the initial data exchange.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">----------------------------------------------------</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px">McLaren's Constructors' Championship ban will have <strong>no</strong> bearing on Pure Fantasy F1 or F1 SupaLiga. The following excerpt from the rules state:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><em></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>"The race scores are taken after the chequered flag from the official FIA web site. Changes after the race because of disqualifications or something like that do not have any influences on the Pure Fantasy F1 points."</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px">As such, McLaren's team performance will be treated <em>as if</em> they were able to score points, so if for example Ron Dennis is your team manager, you will still gain points for McLaren performances.</span></span></p><p></p><p>----------------------------------------------------</p><p></p><p>Believe me, I'm no Ferrari fan, but I feel if McLaren were deemed guilty, how come their drivers go unpunished when they gained an advantage from the stolen data? I think maybe they should have had their points docked as well, maybe to the same total as Felipe Massa.</p><p></p><p>None the less, I still support Lewis! What do you think of all this?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Salty25, post: 431787, member: 185281"] [FONT="Century Gothic"]The World Motor Sport Council has ruled that McLaren [b]did[/b] gain an advantage from an exchange of Ferrari data between then Ferrari engineer Nigel Stepney and McLaren chief designer Mike Coughlan. The WMSC have punished McLaren with the following penalities: o-O McLaren are BANNED from the 2007 World Constructors' Championship, all points gained are wiped. o-O McLaren are fined $US100,000,000 (£49.5m), including prize money and television contracts. o-O McLaren will have to make their 2008 car available for examination by the FIA prior to the 2008 season. However, McLaren driver Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton are still free to race and compete in the Drivers' Championship, and keep all the points gained in that Championship thus far. WMSC called the hearing after new evidence came to light: 1) Email exchanges between Mike Coughlan (who was original given the Ferrari data by Nigel Stepney) and driver Fernando Alonso and Pedro de la Rosa - If proven, this contradicts McLaren's earlier defence that Coughlan never passed the data on to other McLaren staff. 2) Italian police communication evidence which details telephone calls which took place between Coughlan and Stepney a long after the initial data exchange. ---------------------------------------------------- [SIZE="3"]McLaren's Constructors' Championship ban will have [b]no[/b] bearing on Pure Fantasy F1 or F1 SupaLiga. The following excerpt from the rules state: [I] "The race scores are taken after the chequered flag from the official FIA web site. Changes after the race because of disqualifications or something like that do not have any influences on the Pure Fantasy F1 points."[/I] As such, McLaren's team performance will be treated [i]as if[/i] they were able to score points, so if for example Ron Dennis is your team manager, you will still gain points for McLaren performances.[/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE="3"][/SIZE] ---------------------------------------------------- Believe me, I'm no Ferrari fan, but I feel if McLaren were deemed guilty, how come their drivers go unpunished when they gained an advantage from the stolen data? I think maybe they should have had their points docked as well, maybe to the same total as Felipe Massa. None the less, I still support Lewis! What do you think of all this? [/QUOTE]
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