#absolutely not good that employee data and confidential info is leaked

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What's spygate?

Ahh someone who is unfamiliar with this incredible piece of F1 history

I’ll try to keep it brief (because I have a habit of rambling about this) but BBC did an 8 episode podcast about it (Sports Strangest Crimes - Spygate) it’s about 4 hours in total but very good and I also made a post on it a few years back but that is kind of shit.

Essentially in July of 2007, 780 pages of confidential Ferrari documents were brought into a photocopy shop in Surrey by a woman of the name Trudy Coughlan (wife of MikeCoughlan - the McLaren senior design engineer) and she requested that all 780 pages be copied onto a CD.

The man in the photocopy shop recognised the Ferrari logo on the documents (and whilst he completed her request) he also sent an email to one Stefano Domenicali (the then Sporting Director of Ferrari)

A bunch of other stuff happened - not to mention the fact that there was an insane amount of tension in the McLaren team that season because of Lewis and Fernando competing for the title

Initially McLaren claimed to the FIA that the data went no further than Mike Coughlan and he was ‘a rouge employee’ but it was later discovered (over the summer break) that there was a series of email chains indicating that the data had spread further.

In the end McLaren was fined $100,000,000 for possessing confidential Ferrari data.

And the guy in the photocopy shop (Gary) got invited to the secret Ferrari end of season party.

If you are interested the data leak came from Nigel Stepney who was the Ferrari chief mechanic and at the time he felt a bit frustrated in his job and felt as though he’d been passed over for a promotion and as such he shared the documents (as well as some other info about the 2007 Ferrari) with his friend Mike Coughlan (the McLaren Senior Designer) who he knew from when they worked at Lotus back in the 80s

Honestly if you are interested in Spygate listen to the podcast and you can also look up the transcripts from the 2 FIA hearings - they have some absolute gems in them