^ Stupid remark. McLaren belong in F1 just as much as Ferrari do, and Ferrari arent exactly saints either!!
Briatore: Renault may sue McLaren
Renault boss Flavio Briatore has warned that his team may sue rival McLaren for defamation over the ?Spygate II? affair if it is cleared by the FIA.
Representatives from both teams are in Monaco today for a hearing of the World Motor Sport Council, where Renault faces charges of possessing secret McLaren technical data.
McLaren raised the stakes last month when it authorised a press briefing containing a number of allegations about how far its intellectual property had seeped into the Renault organisation ? some of which it admitted yesterday were inaccurate.
Briatore is confident Renault will be acquitted and says the team will not necessarily let the matter rest there.
?A lot of very bad things have been said about us by McLaren in the last few weeks, very damaging,? he told the Daily Express.
?We will be cleared and once the verdict is announced we will consider legal action.
?Our reputation has been defamed.?
Renault has admitted that former McLaren engineer Phil Mackereth brought McLaren data with him when he joined the Enstone team and showed scale drawings to some colleagues, but claims that this was done without the knowledge of anyone in authority.
The team is adamant that none of this information was used to influence its car design and says this is confirmed by witness statements from the engineers involved.
McLaren is expected to dispute this and argue that Renault gained an unfair advantage from the possession and dissemination of the leaked data.
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