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Automobile F1 – Max Mosley: the inside story on McLaren’s ‘spygate’ and the F1 teams breakaway
On July 3, 2007 I got a call from Ron Dennis, the boss of the McLaren Formula One team, to say that at 7.30 that morning, lawyers acting for Ferrari had raided the home of Mike Coughlan, McLaren’s chief designer, and recovered CDs which were believed to contain the entire technical details of the current Ferrari Formula One car. “Spygate” had begun.
Ron assured me that this had come as a complete surprise and he was instituting an immediate internal inquiry to see if anyone else at McLaren was involved. A little later I got a call from Jean Todt with the extraordinary tale of … Details
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