Did FIA break the rules with McLaren F1 fine?
In a startling revelation, it has been suggested that the FIA – world motorsport’s governing body – may have broken its own rules in handing out the unprecedented $100 million USD fine to McLaren-Mercedes over Formula 1’s much-publicised spying scandal in 2007. The penalty, meted out after McLaren was found to be in possession of confidential technical data belonging to arch-rivals Ferrari last summer, remains the largest in the history of the top flight, and one of – if not the – largest in sport full stop. The Woking-based concern also saw all of its 2007 constructors’ world championship points stripped away from it in a meeting of the governing body’s World Motor Sport Council (WMSC). In the consequent period of instability, Lewis Hamilton ultimately lost out on…
