Blog: McLaren F1 Driver Pedro De La Rosa Quizzed By Italian Magistrate
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Nov 01, 2007
McLaren
Pedro de la Rosa has met an Italian magistrate in connection with Ferrari’s ongoing legal case against Nigel Stepney.
The McLaren-Mercedes test driver met with Giuseppe Tibis to discuss proceedings against Ferrari’s former head of performance development, whose actions were alleged to have triggered Formula One’s ‘spy’ scandal.
Stepney is alleged to have passed secret Ferrari information on to suspended McLaren chief designer Mike Coughlan, with the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council eventually finding the latter’s team guilty of “fraudulent conduct” last month. Sporting Life.com
McLaren test driver Pedro de la Rosa met Tuesday with an Italian prosecutor investigating the Ferrari spy scandal.
De La Rosa spoke to Modena prosecutor Giuseppe Tibis about the alleged e-mails containing secret engineering details that the McLaren drivers could access, according to the ANSA news agency.
McLaren driver Fernando Alonso met with prosecutors on Oct. 9.
Neither driver is under criminal investigation, but they are considered to have knowledge of the facts in the case. Canadian Press
McLaren test driver Pedro de la Rosa has become the second driver from the team to meet with the Italian magistrate leading the ongoing legal investigation into the spying controversy.
The Spaniard was interviewed by Modena public prosecutor Giuseppe Tibis at his offices on Tuesday, reports Reuters.
De la Rosa’s countryman Fernando Alonso spoke to Tibis earlier this month, with both Spaniards called as witnesses with knowledge relevant to the case.
It was email conversations between the McLaren pair that made up part of the Wold Motor Sport’s evidence in the second ‘Spygate’ hearing, which resulted in the Woking squad being stripped of its 2007 constructors’ points and hit with a record fine. ITV-F1.com
E-mails between de la Rosa and McLaren driver Fernando Alonso about Ferrari were used as evidence in the FIA hearing which led to the punishment.
The magistrate also questioned Alonso last month as a witness.
Ferrari started the legal case against former engineer Nigel Stepney, who’s alleged to have passed the information McLaren’s suspended chief designer Mike Coughlan. Radionz.co
