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Ferrari not dropping legal action

McLaren may have issued a public apology last night, and the FIA tried to close the lid on all the spy scandals of the year by cancelling plans to meet about the McLaren case again in February, but Ferrari has responded to confirm it is still pursuing legal action against McLaren and former Ferrari employee Nigel Stepney.

"The written and verbal statements issued by senior McLaren personnel both at the World Council meetings of the 26th July and 13th September and through the media have thus been publicly proved wrong," Ferrari said in an official statement. "Therefore it is admitted that confidential information which was the property of Ferrari was disseminated within the structure of the English team and this also confirms the seriousness of the behaviour of those involved over the past few months."

"In the light of McLaren's apology and the guarantees it has presented, Ferrari respects the proposal of the FIA President to cancel the extraordinary general meeting of the WSMC scheduled for 14th February coming, thus bringing this incident to a close from a sporting point of view," the statement added. "However, it is confirmed that criminal actions underway in Italy and civil ones in England are still continuing."

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