Wow!.....this will certainly be historic for MercsMcLaren for the wrong reasons.......very sad

The Council will consider new evidence in the case. Should that evidence prove McLaren made use of confidential Ferrari data in the development of their car, the team could face expulsion from the 2007 and 2008 world championships.

http://www.formula1.com/news/features/2007/9/6761.html

still undecided yet...

UPDATE: whoops looks like the verdict is out. McLaren has been stripped of their constructor points. the drivers however still retains their points. Mclaren is also issued with a 100mil dollar fine.

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They aren't penalized for 2008, but have been fined USD100million. Would that put a dent in their budget for next year?

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McLaren boss Ron Dennis has expressed his frustration at the punishment handed out to his team on Thursday

Full statement from Ron Dennis:

"The most important thing is that we will be going motor racing this weekend, the rest of the season and every season. This means that our drivers can continue to compete for the World Championship. However having been at the hearing today I do not accept that we deserved to be penalised in this way.

"Today's evidence given to the FIA by our drivers, engineers and staff clearly demonstrated that we did not use any leaked information to gain a competitive advantage.

"Much has been made in the press and at the hearing today of emails and text messages to and from our drivers. The World Motorsport Council received statements from Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and Pedro de la Rosa stating categorically that no Ferrari information had been used by McLaren and that they had not passed any confidential data to the team.

"The entire engineering team in excess of 140 people provided statements to the FIA affirming that they had never received or used the Ferrari information.

"We have never denied that the information from Ferrari was in the personal possession of one of our employees at his home. The issue is: was this information used by McLaren? This is not the case and has not been proven today.

"We are also continually asked if McLaren didn't use the information, what was the reason for Stepney and Coughlan collecting all this data about Ferrari? We can only speculate as neither Coughlan nor Stepney gave evidence at today's hearing, but we do know that they were both seeking employment with other teams, as already confirmed by both Honda and Toyota.

"There will be no issue for the 2008 season as we have not at any stage used any intellectual property of any other team.

"We have got the best drivers and the best car and we intend to win the World Championship."

GO! McLaren

According to the F1 official website, McLaren will be stripped off all contructors championship points in 2007 plus will not be allowed any points in 2008 too. However racing will continue.

USD 100 million is peanuts for top F1 teams. It was reported that they operate on a budget like over RM 1.6 billion per race season. This is a multi billion operations my friend!

not to worry so much lah...my kart crg 125 championship pon bila lagi ni...

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that's why you and your karat gang should all sign up as members for 2008, get into the committee and lend us a hand....

....CRG 125 look good to happen in the Grand Finale on 1st December..subject to succesful nego with CK.

hahaah karat gang. Isk is our chief leader here.

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yes...and he joined as a paying member of Kelab my-KART Selangor already...you should follow your leader...

psssss...... I heard is going to be R**** J****r from AP. haha stay tuned

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..psssst!....AP said....something may happen this wednesday....ya kah?

suspense giler....

pssss 19th Wednesday,,, ya ya

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better be good this time! no more hanky panky from AP!

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want to check it out this wednesday?

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Wished I was in KL to check out what's happening tomorrow Edwyn, do your thing, spyshots pls THX

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still no news on anyone want to 'buka puasa' at CK? maybe i should start sms(ing)

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AP says the new engine coming in tomorrow after 2pm and then testing and tuning need to be done... so you guys checking it out tomorrow? Let me know by sms ya, if anyone is going.. No Internet access in the shop.. can't update

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...pssst!.....................very tempting..

.....errr..... who's going?....

hmmm.... i'm free after 5pm (cannot tahan )

....tengok la,......mana tahu!...

hey custome clearence on 19th la, belum pasang lagi la....but anyway I am ok to go check out this 5pm ..... hehe

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.....be at ease lads, you missed nothing today.....lost my discipline momentarily...hehehe

well.. today didn't have a glance at what's the new package like.. all we (zul, jac & me) know is that it came from Taiwan. The package is at the museum.. so have to wait for them to load it up 1st.. very tempting~ (after the sifu boon's explaination)

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