Ferrari invite photocopy shop guy to Italy

Wednesday, December 19th 2007, 17:02 GMT

Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has invited the British photocopy shop employee who helped uncover the McLaren spy scandal to Italy to thank him.
"If it had not been for that photocopy man we would not have known anything about this story," Montezemolo told reporters on Wednesday at the carmaker's end-of-year celebration at their Maranello headquarters.
"That's why we have invited him to the Mugello race track and will invite him to our factory."
The anonymous employee tipped off Ferrari that somebody had copied 780 pages of their technical data in June.
The dossier was found at the home of McLaren's former chief designer Mike Coughlan and the scandal eventually cost his team the constructors' title and a $100-million fine.
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen went on to edge McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso for the drivers' title.

Montezemolo had already dedicated Ferrari's win at the Belgian Grand Prix, where the Italian team virtually secured the constructors' championship, to the employee and to fans.

With the FIA bringing some closure to the spy scandal this week by cancelling a February hearing into McLaren's 2008 car, Montezemolo hopes the sport can now move on from the affair.

He also said that he had not had any contact with McLaren boss Ron Dennis since the Woking-based team issued an apology earlier this month for not realising how far Ferrari information had spread within their organisation.

"It was an ugly page, something to forget. The last letter from McLaren is the demonstration that someone lied. Did Dennis contact me? No, but he's friends with Todt, so he might get in touch with him..."

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Es lo menos que podrían hacer. Eso si, si al chaval le regalan un Alfa 159 o un GT estará aun mas contento.