Renault responds: No data on our cars.

No McLaren design on our car and we are confident in the World Council states Enstone squad.

Having been summoned to appear in front of the World Motor Sport Council, Renaulthas issued a lengthy statement to clarify its position in the latest twist to the Formula 1spying saga.

In the statement, the Enstone-based outfit confirms that a team member – engineer Phil Mackereth - was in possession of information from McLaren, who he left to join the regie in September 2006.

More than twelve months later, in September this year, senior officials within the team discovered that Mackereth had brought information with him from Woking – including McLarenengineering drawings and some technical spreadsheets – which were loaded onto his personal directory on the Renault F1Team file system, without the knowledge of any authority figures within the team.