Mosley waiting for McLaren dossier

The controversy that has overshadowed Formula One for more than three months could take a new turn if McLaren file a damning dossier on another of their rivals.

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Clamping down: F1 chief Max Mosley

McLaren were handed a record-breaking £50million fine and stripped of all their constructors' points for the year at a World Motor Sport Council hearing in Paris last Thursday.

The British-based team were penalised after a 780-page dossier of Ferrari technical information was discovered at the home of their chief designer Mike Coughlan.

Now there is the prospect of McLaren filing a complaint against Renault.

Defiant Renault boss Flavio Briatore insists this case is not the same as the one that has dominated the headlines since early July.

Mosley, though, will act if McLaren provide any evidence.

"We haven't had the complaint or the detail we have been promised from McLaren about that, but when we get it, we will investigate," confirmed Mosley.

"We've had a dossier from Renault which doesn't look particularly damning, but then again, you wouldn't expect it to.

"It's allegedly an employee who took some floppy disks with him, but we must wait and see what comes out from McLaren."

Mosley confirmed he has already spoken to Ron Dennis on the matter, adding: "I said to him, 'When you have got your dossier together Ron, let's have it'.

"He, with Renault's agreement, sent experts into Renault to look at their computer system recently.

"So obviously when he has got that report, if there's something significant in it, I have no doubt he will let us have it."

Briatore is convinced nothing will come of the matter as he said: "If somebody tells me it's the same (as McLaren), I sue.

"Secondly, it's not an investigation regarding myself and the team.

"Third, we have given all the information to the Federation, at least when we found out something.

"This is it. It's as simple as that, and I have given the evidence as well to McLaren."

McLaren boss Dennis maintains it is an ongoing issue, stating: "It is still the subject of discussion between those companies involved.

"It's wholly inappropriate for me to make any comment on it, and as and when there is something to share, then it will be shared, but it is certainly not now."