FIA president Max Mosley has admitted that it was F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone who brought the “new evidence” of email exchanges between McLaren drivers related to the spygate affair to his attention.
“Yes, he spoke to me about them and told me they were compromising, ” Mosley tells the Gazzetta dello Sport. “I don’t know who gave them to him, but I have a suspicion. ” TSN.ca
Bernie Ecclestone has thrown his support behind the FIA’s decision to penalise McLaren for spying.
“There was a process, and the process showed that they did something wrong, ” F1’s chief executive told the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport.
He reiterated: “Information transferred from another team to theirs on a nearly daily basis. ” DueMotori.com
Meanwhile the Ferrari driver Felipe Massa has said his team are worthy constructors’ title winners. “If we have won the championship because another team has not followed the rules, then we can say we did follow those rules and we won, ” he said. “I am pleased with this result, even if it would have been better to win in a different way.” Alan Henry, Guardian.co
Ron Dennis initially claimed that he first alerted the FIA president to the existence of the electronic exchanges between Pedro de la Rosa and Fernando Alonso.
But it emerged in the September 13 hearings in Paris that Ecclestone, F1’s chief executive, may actually have alerted Mosley first. HomeofSport.com
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