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No ill-feeling from Spygate in McLaren-Mercedes reunion

Toto Wolff says there is no lingering ill-feeling between McLaren and Mercedes over the Spygate saga that rocked Formula 1 back in 2007 ahead of their reunion in two years’ time. McLaren announced last weekend that it would be ending its power unit agreement with Renault at the end of 2020 in order to reforge ties with Mercedes, who supplied engines to the British team between 1995 and 2014. McLaren was Mercedes’ de facto works outfit in F1 for much of that period, only for the ‘Spygate’ scandal of 2007 to begin the breakdown of the relationship after the team was thrown out of the constructors’ championship and landed a $100 million fine. Mercedes returned to F1 with a full...
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