Talk:Nigel Stepney

Return to Ferrari?
I was talking with Steve Matchett of the Speed Channel in Las Vegas this past week when another fellow approached and asked Matchett if he'd heard that Stepney had returned to Ferrari. This fellow said he'd heard of Stepney's return from a Ferrari F1 employee and was fairly sure it was a fact. Matchett was fairly stunned by this news (as I was). I have no reputable source for this information, and I see nothing on Google about it, but perhaps someone else can get the facts and update the article if appropriate. 67.170.234.221 (talk) 23:38, 12 January 2008 (UTC)


 * when pigs will fly. 213.140.17.100 (talk) 09:05, 22 January 2008 (UTC)


 * probably about right. :-) I see the article now refers to a new position for Stepney, so this rumor must have been as bogus as it sounded. 67.170.234.221 (talk) 23:15, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Was a mechanic
imho there aren't chance he will find jobs.213.140.17.100 (talk) 09:05, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

STEPNEY “DELIGHTED” BY FIA CLIMBDOWN

London, 14.00, 8 March, 2008: Giving his initial reaction to the FIA’s announcement last night that they had no case against the ex Ferrari engineer at the centre of the F1 spying scandal of 2007, Nigel Stepney today said he was “delighted that the FIA have backed down” from their threat to ban him from motorsport.

Commenting on the FIA’s recommendation to its licensees “that they do not professionally collaborate with Mr Stepney without conducting appropriate due diligence,” a beaming Stepney said that it had taken 6 months for the FIA to even approach him for his version of events: “They may want to do some due diligence themselves before simply accepting one side of the story.”

Stepney admits that a former MacLaren engineer and friend of 20 years got a hold of very limited information through his carelessness: “Frankly, I should have known better. But it sure as hell wasn’t the 780 page dossier FIA saw and which I’ve just been shown for the first time by the Italian authorities.”

Siân Nath, of Stepney’s UK law firm Coyle White Devine, said, “It should be noted that Nigel Stepney has never admitted any dishonest intention. The FIA is fully aware of that. Our client blew the whistle on certain matters to FIA officials; that is not in any contention. The Italian authorities have been made aware of this last month; they, too, accept his position.”

According to Stepney, what frustrates him most, apart from the FIA’s wall of silence, is that he wrote in detail to FIA president Max Moseley in August last year. He laughed off the FIA’s suggestion that he had accepted the allegation that he passed Ferrari secrets to MacLaren employees and apologised for it. “It’ll all come out in the book,” which he is planning to release this summer on the affair, “but right now I’m getting on with the job that’s been my life and enjoying my family, who’ve suffered enormously and stood by me throughout, in peace.” He would not be drawn on whether he was pursuing any action against his detractors.

Contact:

Andrew Mackay	Insights andrewmackay@insightsuk.com Mobile: + 44 (0) 79 58 675 150

Peter Coyle		Senior partner, Coyle White Devine, Solicitors Mobile: + 44 (0) 79 71 226 787

Notes for editors

Nigel Stepney has spent 32 years in motor sport and was widely credited with the engineering leadership that contributed to 7 driver’s and 5 constructors’ F1 Championships for Ferrari during the Schumacher years.

The Federation International de l’Automobile is the Geneva based motor sports organisation led by Bernie Ecclestone; its President is Max Moseley (son of Sir Oswald). It owns and or controls a variety of motor sports rights, for which it acts as the governing body, including F1. It does not claim any right to control motor sport generally.

At the start of the 2007 F1 campaign rumours of espionage erupted, implicating MacLaren engineer Mike Coughlan in using, and alleging Stepney as the source of, Ferrari secrets.

Coughlan was later reported to have been pursued in the High Court and brought before the World Motors Sports Council of the FIA. His team, Vodafone MacLaren Mercedes denied any complicity at the July 2007 hearing before WMSC. But weeks later, the FIA implicated the team and handed down a record USD100m fine and stripped MacLaren of all of their championship-leading points.

Ferrari dismissed Stepney without a hearing; the matter is before the Italian courts.

Stepney has never appeared before the FIA.

Coyle White Devine Solicitors are solicitors based in London and the Home Counties practising exclusively in litigation. Peter Coyle, senior partner, is well known as a commentator on sports law and has represented several premiership players.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.13.206.142 (talk) 21:36, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

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