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23rd November 2007

A report in the UK’s Times newspaper suggests that the industrial espionage case involving the Woking UK based McLaren Mercedes Formula One team and the Enstone UK based Renault Formula One team could be “as bad or even worse” than the recent case involving McLaren and Ferrari.

The Times story says that a leaked briefing memo from McLaren claims that the Renault F1 team had more than 780 individual drawings, allegedly stolen from McLaren, on their computers and that this data amounted to “the entire technical blueprint of the 2006 and 2007 McLaren F1 cars”.

The memo also names a group of seven senior figures in the Renault design and technical team including the chief designer, the head of research and development, the head of mechanical design, the head of transmission design and the head of vehicle performance, who McLaren allege discussed the McLaren technical information.

In September the McLaren team was fined $100m (£47.5m) and forfeited their points in the 2007 F1 Constructors World Championship points after the were found guilty of being in possession confidential information on the Ferrari team’s 2007 car.

Representatives of the Renault F1 team have been summoned to appear before a hearing of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Monaco on December 6.

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