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Mosley: Spying teams will be thrown out
22 January 2008
McLaren were fined £50million and kicked out of the 2007 constructors' championship by the FIA's World Motor Sport Council in September after they were found guilty of being in illegal possession of Ferrari technical data, but their drivers - Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso - were allowed to retain their championship points and fight for the drivers' crown.
Speaking to the official F1 website, Mosley said: "You can never stop what someone has got in his head, but we can stop the transfer of information in written or electronic form. Next time, whoever it was, I don't think they would stay in the championship."
He added: "If you are prepared to check - and we have demonstrated that we are - then somebody using such information would be very unwise because in a modern F1 team you cannot do it without leaving traces, and we will find those traces.
"In the case of McLaren everybody said 'oh, a hundred million dollars', but the alternative would have been to exclude them - and that would have been more expensive!"
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