Autosport Retro - From The Archives - Spygate 2007 and The Biggest Fine in F1 History!
The Autosport F1 Podcast
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network. |
| 0:13.0 | From Allsport.com and Allsport Magazine, I'm Kevin Turner and this is from the archive. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to the latest episode of our new series where we dip into the history of motorsport |
| 0:23.6 | and find, well, the most interesting, I suppose sometimes controversial storylines |
| 0:29.6 | and help me discuss the 2007 Spigate, which is a very long storyline. |
| 0:35.6 | But we'll try and do our best with it is Is Morris Hamilton who was there all the way through, |
| 0:39.3 | I would say probably one of F1's most remarkable seasons actually 2007. |
| 0:43.3 | For lots of reasons of which Spygate was won, |
| 0:46.3 | but the arrival of Lewis Hamilton, |
| 0:48.3 | the battle between him and his McLaren team met Fernando Alonzo, |
| 0:52.3 | all the way to the end, Kimmy Rikinen coming through the middle and winning the championship. But the Spagate thing in the middle was the most unexpected thing. And I can honestly say in my many, many years of doing it, I've never known anything like it, and I hope we'll never see anything like it again. It was just incredible. No, it wasn't very good for F1, but it is an incredible story |
| 1:11.9 | and sequence of events |
| 1:13.1 | with lots of different players involved. |
| 1:15.3 | So you were in the middle. |
| 1:18.2 | So tell us how and where you were |
| 1:21.0 | when it first broke |
| 1:22.4 | that there had been some technical information |
| 1:24.7 | passed from Ferrari to McLaren |
| 1:27.0 | or at least employees of those two |
| 1:28.8 | teams. Yeah. So we had no idea, we being the media, had no idea of what was coming. We went to |
| 1:35.3 | the British Grand Prix in 2007 as usual on the Thursday for the pre-weekend interviews and so |
| 1:42.3 | on. One of the things that we were invited to was McLaren had a |
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