Disgraced former Ferrari engineer Nigel Stepney has been handed a jail term over the 2007 F1 spygate scandaꩲl after entering a plea bargain with an Italian court - but is unlikely to spend any time behind ba🎀rs.

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

Both lost their jobs over the scandal while McLaren was also fined $100 million by the FIA and was excluded from the constructors' ch💖ampionship.

Ferrari launched criminal proceedings against Stepney before the spygate scandal actually 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 Stepne♑y's trousers - although the man himself iไnsisted he had been set up.

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

Thanks to the plea bargain entered by Stepn꧋ey's legal team, he is unlikely to ser💖ve any time in prison over the scandal.

Stepney is now working with the Sumo P☂ower GT team in ൩the FIA GT1 World Championship.