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Ferrari deny Hoyle is joining as new ‘spygate' erupts

Ferrari has played down reports it has signed up Formula 1's latest alleged espionage protagonist. Bloomberg news agency revealed on Tuesday that Mercedes is suing a power unit engineer Benjamin Hoyle after he allegedly copied confidential data ahead of his move to Ferrari in 2016. But Omnicorse quoted Ferrari sources as saying contact between the Maranello team and Hoyle was only ever 'very informal with us, and presumably with other teams as well'. And a Ferrari spokesman said on the record that there is no contract between the team and Hoyle, and he is not joining Ferrari 'in the foreseeable future'. Mercedes, meanwhile, confirmed the legal action against Hoyle but told us: 'We ask for...
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