McLaren statement from Ron Dennis
"The most important thing is that we will be going motor racing this
weekend, the rest of the season and every season. This means that our
drivers can continue to compete for the World Championship. However
having been at the hearing today I do not accept that we deserved to be
penalised in this way."
"Today's evidence given to the FIA by our drivers, engineers and staff
clearly demonstrated that we did not use any leaked information to gain a
competitive advantage."
"Much has been made in the press and at the hearing today of emails and
text messages to and from our drivers. The World Motorsport Council
received statements from Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and Pedro de la
Rosa stating categorically that no Ferrari information had been used by
McLaren and that they had not passed any confidential data to the team."
"The entire engineering team in excess of 140 people provided statements
to the FIA affirming that they had never received or used the Ferrari
information."
"We have never denied that the information from Ferrari was in the
personal possession of one of our employees at his home. The issue is:
was this information used by McLaren? This is not the case and has not
been proven today."
"We are also continually asked if McLaren didn't use the information,
what was the reason for Stepney and Coughlan collecting all this data
about Ferrari? We can only speculate as neither Coughlan nor Stepney gave
evidence at today's hearing, but we do know that they were both seeking
employment with other teams, as already confirmed by both Honda and
Toyota."
"There will be no issue for the 2008 season as we have not at any stage
used any intellectual property of any other team."
"We have got the best drivers and the best car and we intend to win the
World Championship."
-credit: mclaren
