Monday 23rd February 2009

The Spygate legal case against McLaren engineers Paddy Lowe, Jonathan Neale and Rob Taylor was dropped, after a ‘no contest’ agreement between the lawyers representing them and the Modena district attorney was reached. In exchange for not contesting the charges of copyright infringement relating to Ferrari’s data, Coughlan paid €180,000, with the other three men paying €150,000 each