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It will be interesting for sure..
Just to recap however a few issues as they are known..
It would appear that a large amount of proprietory McLaren information covering the design of the 2006 and 2007 cars was installed on the Renault computer system during September 2006.
The source of this information would appear to be an newly hired employee who had been hired by Renault at the time, leaving his previous employer Mclaren immediateyl before beginning work at McLaren.
So logically the information was taken from one to the other.
It would also appear that Renault have, since this aspect came to light, deleted all the information from their systems and returned it to Mclaren.
In the meantime Renault has not contested the issue that a large number of individuals in their team have had access to this information since its first appearance on the system.
It will be therefore interesting what 'spin' is placed on this by the proceedings.. as the championship is complete and to change it on this basis would risk the loss of a major player... afterall Renault, for all the percieved lack of performance have a pedigree in F1, of the other teams Ferrari and McLaren are the only ones who can exceed it.. remember they won a few championships with Williams as well, so to call them a bit player is incorrect.
Regardless of what the McLaren fine was it did set a benchmark.. get caught with somebody else's information and you are fined. The wealth of the team is irrelevant, the 'value' of the object is the issue. In that regard the information the Renault team had was far greater than the information the McLaren team had.. it covered two race years and was avaliable whilst the car was still being designed and prior to being homologated by the FIA.. hence the research and experience that McLaren had and the choices it had made in terms of adapting the new car to the new tyres could have been added to whatever knowledge and choices Renault had... copying is not the issue here, its having a greater range of information and options that leads to the additional edge.
However my guess is that there will be a major 'difference' in the assessment of the value of the information or how it came to be in the hands of Renault. F1does not want to lose Renault, they knew that McLaren was not going to walk, nor was Ron going to leave.. but they knew they would pay to stay. Renault.. more money to do other things.. like a return to rallying, now that the opposition is lesser it makes sense.
So the fine will be less or non existant and the whole McLaren/ Ferrari circus wil start again...this time who knows what will crawl out of the wood work.
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