Pretty certain based on what? What you write makes no sense, the opposite does. Why? It starts with Ferrari wanting to hire him, they need an employee and the one working for Mercedes is more valuable. Then as you suggest he himself tries to gain access to some data and Ferrari tip off Mercedes? No:Jersey Tom wrote:I'd be pretty certain Ferrari didn't ask / tell him to do it. It's actually quite possible someone at Ferrari tipped them off about this.
If someone comes to your team saying "Hey! Look at all this data I nabbed!" then what they've basically told you is, "If / when we eventually part ways I'll be walking out the door with your IP too."
1. There was no tipping off at all, no indication of anything like that, the process is explained by Mercedes and there's no Ferrari involvement at all. Timing doesn't make sense, too early.
3. Let's say there was: why would they act against their own interests? They lose an employee they wanted (for good?), gain nothing and lose marketing wise by getting implicated in official court documents that Mercedes supplied. Public small scandal starts with Merc suing him, putting Ferrari name and asking for blocking his employment. Where's the logic in that, where is this righteous cooperation against one evil individual you suggested? Come on, they wouldn't do that and if they did that's not how it would look like.
It starts with obvious Ferrari's reply of distancing themselves from the whole affair which is not credible at all. What do you expect them to say, we wanted to hire him along with some Merc IP but it didn't work out? It looks less serious than headlines suggested anyway.Great article by the ever awesome Adam Cooper, a must to read:
http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/analy ... ygate/?s=1
Influenced by spy fiction
: couldn't they give him some false data or wait until he starts working and then get bans and penalties? Probably not because of corporate processes, also Mercedes and Ferrari are allies in keeping engine status quo so that would be too much.
