Renault suspend engineer after FIA charge

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On Thursday the FIA ordered the team to appear in Monaco before the World Motor Sport Council on December 6, to answer a charge in relation to a breach of article 151c of the International Sporting Code.

Renault moved to defend themselves today by revealing they suspended the individual involved, informed the FIA and McLaren, erased all records of the information and returned the original copies to their Formula One rivals and launched an investigation.

In a statement the team said: "On September 6 it came to our attention that an engineer (Phil Mackereth) who joined the team from McLaren in Sept. 2006 had brought with him some information that was considered to be proprietary to McLaren.

"This information was contained on old style floppy discs and included copies of some McLaren engineering drawings and some technical spreadsheets.

"This information was loaded at the request of Mr Mackereth onto his personal directory on the Renault F1 Team file system.

"This was done without the knowledge of anyone in authority in the team."