haha AKR yeah Ron Dennis went into Marenello and stole the dossier personally did he!? If you dont like him thats fair enough but to accuse him of being a criminal is petty!!!!
The only person who will be in trouble for stealing would be Nigel Stepney(Ferrari employee) and Coughlan for accepting unauthorised intellectual property.
Exactly right Bud, this subject is obviously going to rumble on for sometime yet, and maybe it should, it was a major incident for F1. However, can we please all get one thing straight. Whatever your opinion is on this subject the FACTS are, as Bud says here, that Stepney was the only person who stole anything. He stole data from his employer for his own ends. He passed that data to Coughlan and Coughlan then distributed this data to certain peole within McL. Exactly who had this data we shall never really know.
It was deemed that ,even though it was a few employees of McL who received this data ,and those people were not authoried, by McL, to receive it, it was still Mcls responsibility for the actions of its employees. Quite right to. However, if the company is responsible for the actions of its employees, then that applies to Ferrari also. On that basis Farrari gave the data to McL - it was NOT stolen by anyone at McL. McL should have been penalised, but so should Ferrari .
McL should not have been penalised for receiving the data, since it was freely given, but they should have been penalised for using it and for not returning it to its rightful owner as soon as poss.
Todt should have been sacked by Fiat for allowing such a monumental breech of security.
Renault should have had at least an equivalent penalty.
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