Stepney sentenced over spygate saga

Nigel Stepney sentenced over F1 spying saga
Nigel Stepney - Ferrari
Nigel Stepney - Ferrari
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Disgraced former Ferrari engineer Nigel Stepney has been handed a jail term over the 2007 F1 spygate scandal after entering a plea bargain with an Italian court - but is unꦦlikely to spend any time behind bars.

Stepney was dismissed by the team after it was found that he 🐼had passed confidential information about Ferrari's car to McLaren engineer Mike Coughlan.

Both lost their jobs over the sca꧒ndal while McLaren was also fined $100 million by the FI𒉰A and was excluded from the constructors' championship.

Ferrari launched criminal proceedings against Stepney before the spygate scandal ac🌟tually broke as he was also accused of attempting to sabotage the teams cars, with a mysterious white powder being found around the fuel cap of both cars in Monaco and also in the pocket of Stepney's trousers - although the man himself insisted he had been set up.

According to Reuters, quoting local media reports, Stepney was handed a 20 month jail term by a court🌠 in Sassuolo near Ferrari's Maranello base and was also fined 600 Euro.

Thanks to the plea bargain entered by Stepney's legal teaꦕm, he is unlikely to serve any tim✅e in prison over the scandal.

Stepney is now working with the Sumo Power GT team in the FIA GT1 W𒐪orld Cha𒁃mpionship.

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