tek-monkey said:
The evidence centres on email exchanges between McLaren test driver Pedro de la Rosa and world champion Fernando Alonso, as well as traces of phone calls and text messages between the team’s then chief designer Mike Coughlan and Ferrari’s Nigel Stepney.
The emails between de la Rosa and Alonso appear to contradict a core element of McLaren’s defence – that confidential Ferrari information was not circulated within the team but was held by a single ‘rogue’ employee for his own purposes.
In emails sent in late March and early April, extracts of which are published in the FIA’s report, de la Rosa and Alonso discussed information gleaned from Stepney about the design and performance of Ferrari’s F2007 car.
On 21 March, de la Rosa emailed Coughlan asking for information about the Ferrari’s weight distribution, saying “it would be important for us to know so that we could try it in the simulator†and adding that “I will be in the simulator tomorrowâ€.
After receiving a reply by text message, he then emailed Alonso four days later setting out Ferrari’s weight distribution to two decimal places on each of the Maranello team’s cars for the Australian Grand Prix.
When Alonso questioned the reliability of the data, de la Rosa replied: “All the information from Ferrari is very reliable.