Hamilton Attends F1 Spying Row Hearing
McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton looks set to be called as a witness in today’s
World Motor Sport Council hearing into new evidence arising in the ongoing F1
spying row.
Hamilton was seen arriving at the meeting in Paris where McLaren will face a
second World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) hearing in the row over possession of
Ferrari technical data.
At a July hearing, the team were found guilty of fraudulent conduct by the
FIA council but were not punished because of insufficient evidence.
The latest evidence reportedly centres around an e-mail exchange between
McLaren driver Fernando Alonso and McLaren test driver Pedro de la Rosa.
The spy row broke in July when a dossier of Ferrari data was found at the
home of McLaren chief designer Mike Coughlan, who has since been suspended.
Ferrari believe Coughlan received the documents from their former performance
director Nigel Stepney.
Criminal proceedings are active against Stepney, who was sacked by Ferrari in
July although he has protested his innocence.
McLaren have also been told
that they are under investigation by Italian prosecutors and were visited by
officials in the Monza paddock at last weekend’s Italian Grand Prix.
