Ferrari/McLaren Espionage Story [merged]

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Originally Posted by Gannex

You are making a big assumption here, Ian. Yes, Mrs. Coughlan was obviously sent to do the job of photocopying the precious Ferrari design drawings, but by whom? By McLaren you say. You say the team had to be involved, but I say it is much more likely to have been nothing to do with McLaren. I suggest that Mr. Coughlan personally sent his good wife to copy the documents Stepney had given him, that same Mr. Coughlan who tried earlier, along with Stepney, to get a job for both of them at Honda. The men were obviously in league with each other.

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Actually that was the point I was trying to make, if you have something this sensitive you don't send someones wife down to the local store to photocopy it!!!

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Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1

2) Ferrari documents have been found in the possesion of McLaren's Mike Coughlan.

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Has that actually been confirmed?

You know if you tried to peddle this as novel to a publisher or to a movie producer you would be out on your ear so fast your head would swim, followed by gales of laughter. :D

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Originally Posted by Ian McC

Actually that was the point I was trying to make, if you have something this sensitive you don't send someones wife down to the local store to photocopy it!!!

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And who were the copies for?????

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Originally Posted by Ian McC

Has that actually been confirmed?

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Apparently 780 times!

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Originally Posted by Ian McC

Has that actually been confirmed?

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I thought so, although Stepney has said:

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"I have no idea how anything came into Mike's possession. I don't even know for sure that he has had documents. Do you know for sure? Categorically, he didn't get them from me. If he has some, then they came from another source."

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McLaren have been summoned to appear before an extraordinary meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council later this month to answer charges relating to Formula One's ongoing spy controversy surrounding their chief designer Mike Coughlan.

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http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/60729

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Originally Posted by janneppi

Looking at the link pitpass had about the copier shop, it said that Trudy Coughlan worked for Tyrell, didn't that become BAR an then Honda?
Does she work for Honda's F1 team?

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Almost everyone at Tyrrell was sacked IIRC when BAR was established, I think only the truckdriver was kept over. All Pollock wanted to keep over from the old team was the FIA entry.

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Originally Posted by wmcot

And who were the copies for?????

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And why copy it now? After all if the stuff about wanting jobs at Honda are to be believed they were rebuffed in early June. Were they thinking of approaching another team?

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Originally Posted by Dylan H

Almost everyone at Tyrrell was sacked IIRC when BAR was established, I think only the truckdriver was kept over. All Pollock wanted to keep over from the old team was the FIA entry.

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That then leads to the question what was her position in Tyrell, and does she now work in a F1 related company?