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Domenicali ready to move on from spy scandal

Ferrari's new team principal Stefano Domenicali covered many subjects at his press conference on Wednesday at the team's Wrooom press meeting at Madonna di Campiglio in the Italian Dolemites. Among the subjects were his new responsibilities, McLaren, the 2008 season, Michael Schumacher and the spy saga.

"Clearly there is a lot of responsibility," said Domenicali of his new job, "but I want to tackle it with the spirit that I've always had over the years: concentration, work, a positive approach vis-à-vis all that is to be managed. So from a personal point of view, I'm not changing, I'm the same person as I was before.

Asked how the spy saga could be avoided in the future, Domenicali affirmed that "from a certain point of view, teams and Ferrari among them, have done a lot in terms of industrial security, using one's own know-how to protect one's own procedures and to protect this within the heritage of one's own firm.

"But this I think was a problem which was different. Here we are speaking about persons, who, due to the role, due to the responsibility that they enjoyed within the organisation, there are no procedures which may work. It is an issue of betrayal of values. It was an issue in respect of the principals of loyalty, sporting loyalty. There are no systems which may work. Once you have a relevant position within any organisation then it's a problem of loyalty, it's a problem of values which you must have within yourself. This is one issue. As for the safety and protection of our know-how, that's an issue on which Ferrari has invested a lot and continues to invest because clearly we do not want to lose grip of the needs of being secure."

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