Briatore convinced that Renault has done nothing wrong

Renault's Team Boss, Flavio Briatore, declared in an interview with 'The Times' that Renault has done nothing wrong and that they should not be punished for possessing technical secrets belonging to the McLaren Mercedes team.

Flavio Briatore admitted that Phil Mackereth (former McLaren engineer) showed technical drawnings of McLaren to his colleagues but matters had gone no further than that. “When we found out in September, we talked with this guy [Mackereth], we started an investigation and immediately suspended the guy and then immediately we informed McLaren and the FIA. We gave to Mr Mosley all the correspondence and the evidence and a statement from our engineers making clear we never used any McLaren system in our car.”

“The information was in the computer, it was in the disks that this guy brought. It was very simple. It was a drawing of a few systems, it was part of a drawing of the gearbox and was part of a drawing of a mass-damper. I am confident the information was not used and not only me. We have witness statements from every engineer that was involved and, categorically, everybody says that there was no influence of any of these things on the design of our car.”