Media claims 'whistleblower' behind Ferrari scandal

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3 March 2020 by    2 min read
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The Italian media suspects a whistleblower is behind the bizarre saga surrounding the legality of Ferrari's 2019 engine.

Rival teams are reportedly furious that the FIA reached a secret "settlement" following a lengthy investigation into how the power unit works.

At best, the story is confusing.

"To understand, look outside the FIA," an unnamed team engineer told Italy's Corriere della Sera.

Correspondent Giorgio Terruzzi suspects that "confidential technical information" flowed out of Ferrari to the governing FIA.

He wrote: "It is known that Toto Wolff is a sworn enemy of Ferrari after the veto that was put on any team boss being promoted to the top of Liberty Media.

"Wolff has the character and ambition to try to get what he wants. The FIA statement is ambiguous, of course, but it is necessary to quell a ferocious and even darker conflict."

Leo Turrini, another Italian journalist known to be close to Ferrari, wrote on his Quotidiano blog: "Throughout this story, the FIA has acted as if it had information from - to use an English term - a whistleblower.

"I am not (spy novel author) John le Carre, but I do not think I am wrong," he added.

Many other F1 insiders are predicting that this is just the beginning of what will become a deeper scandal.

"The question of whether Ferrari cheated is almost secondary compared to the problem of transparency that this creates," an unnamed F1 team member told Ouest France newspaper.

"This is not in line with today's world and the demands for transparency in terms of the governance of society and sport, to which the FIA subscribes in its statutes," another insider added.

It is believed several of Ferrari's rivals have asked the FIA for clarification.

"While respecting the confidentiality and legality of the agreements, (the FIA) is open to the queries of teams," AFP news agency quotes an FIA official as saying.

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2 F1 Fan comments on “Media claims 'whistleblower' behind Ferrari scandal”

  1. MichaelM

    Ferrari has every right to protect its intellectual property and its exercising this right. This is all orchestrated by the English media that can't accept that Ferrari can win in its own right. Here's an example of all this 'pig manure':
    https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/51736247
    Interesting enough they never objected to the secret dealing with Mercedes and FIA about the so called DAS steering system. They kept it all under wrap and when caught out FIA decided to ban it for next year. Not a word from the English media about this sort.

  2. Caesar.

    This is ridiculous, toto wolff doesn't like to be beaten end when he is he goes bazook. Well toto get ready to be beaten this year, by Ferrari or Red Bull! and stop complain.


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