# McLaren Excluded from 07 and 08 Championships

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**Created:** [September 13, 2007, 9:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mclaren-excluded-from-07-and-08-championships/35301 "2007-09-13T09:33:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 14, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mclaren-excluded-from-07-and-08-championships/35301/21 "2007-09-14T16:49:16Z")

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> One of the key submissions to the World Motor Sport Council on Thursday came from Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen, we can reveal.
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> The Ferrari driver stated in writing that while he was at McLaren from 2002 until 2006 the team systematically listened to Ferrari’s radio transmissions, which are supposed to be scrambled.
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> This was put to Ron Dennis in Paris on Thursday, and reportedly a long silence followed before he came up with a reply.
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> Intriguingly, the Kimi evidence was not part of the report released by the FIA today, and thus has not reached the public domain until now.

ooooooooooooooooooooooooboy. That can’t be good. :lolham:

> Ironically in July Mika Salo revealed to a Finnish newspaper that when at Ferrari in 1999 he regularly received transcripts of Mika Hakkinen’s radio conversations.
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> Unfortunately for Salo he was driving a Ferrari at the Spa 24 Hours the week that story emerged. A “correction” was soon sent from Maranello explaining what the Finn had meant to say was that in those primitive days sometimes teams accidentally overheard the conversations of rivals…

:uhh::uhh::uhh::uhh::uhh:

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