Ferrari Board of Directors - Press release of 31st July
2007
Today, in Maranello, the Ferrari S.p.A. Board of Directors
met to deliberate about the legal actions taken in the last
weeks by the Gestione Sportiva.
The Board has ratified what happened until now, which is
the action taken against Nigel Stepney over the fact of the
powder found around the refuelling aperture on the F1 cars
during the Monaco Grand Prix tests. The submission of another
legal action against Stepney concerning the theft of technical
information, the civil action presented to The High Court
of London against Mike Coughlan, chief designer of Vodafone
McLaren Mercedes, and his wife, concerning the theft of the
aforementioned documents.
The Board took note of the FIA World Council’s decision
of 26th of July and of today’s decision from the FIA
President, Max Mosley, to refer this matter to a hearing of
the FIA Court of Appeal, where Ferrari, as the injured party
of the incident, will be accorded all the rights to which
they are entitled in a trial, which was not the case at the
World Council meeting.
The Board gives its full authority to the Board of Directors’
President, to the CEO, and to the Managing Director to initiate
and continue any necessary legal action, in the name of the
Company, in addiction to those legal actions already underway
in every legal, civil, criminal, administrative, sporting
jurisdiction be it, in Italy or abroad.
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