FIA summons McLaren in espionage investigation

Representatives of the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 Team have been requested to appear before an extraordinary meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Paris on Thursday, the 26th of July 2007.

The team representatives have been called to answer a charge that between March and July 2007, in breach of Article 151c of the International Sporting Code, Vodafone McLaren Mercedes had unauthorised possession of documents and confidential information belonging to Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro, including information that could be used to design, engineer, build, check, test, develop and/or run a 2007 Ferrari Formula One car.