Formula 1's spying takes another bow

On the day when F1 inspectors go to McLaren's Technology Centre (Paragon) to view next years McLaren, to make sure there are no Ferrari parts present, the FIA have announced that Renault will now be facing spying charges at a meeting of the World Motor Sports Council on the 6th December.

According to the FIA, "The team representatives have been called to answer a charge that between September 2006 and October 2007, in breach of Article 151c of the International Sporting Code, the Renault F1 Team had unauthorised possession of documents and confidential information belonging to Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, including, but not limited to the layout and critical dimensions of the McLaren F1 car, together with details of the McLaren fuelling system, gear assembly, oil cooling system, hydraulic control system and a novel suspension component used by the 2006 and 2007 McLaren F1 cars."

This would indeed be a great irony, if Fernando Alonso was just about to pitch up his tent back in Enstone at Renault's HQ at the very moment they got themselves embroiled in the spying scandal (part 2). If it were to happen, would team managers start thinking that Alonso is bad luck?

Squiffy.