It started as a joke. Many people said that the Toyota TF103 looked so much like the Ferrari F2002 (and F2003-GA) that it was nicknamed the 'Ferrari with a Toyota engine'. Now the situation is getting more serious. A few hours ago, Gazzetta dello Sport confirmed that German police searched the residence of an Italian engineer who is actually working for Toyota and is a former (less than 2 years ago) Ferrari employee. Following this initial search, the police went to Cologne and searched the aerodynamics department of Toyota Racing for a few hours. Computers, CD's, hard disks and a few projects were seized. Police also questioned co-workers of the engineer to get more information about the activities of the man. The engineer in question was later arrested by police. The legal procedure made by the German court was initiated following a request from an Italian prosecutor in Modena, who lodged a complaint for Industrial espionage. I knew it from the begging that something was wrong. . .

hmmm very strange..
They have to kill people who do that!!

Well i think it's really a problem ., cause i think alot more poeple will work by Toyota cause THERE is the BIg money :S
Toyota is FAR and FAR the righest team in the formula uno!
Can u remember what toyota said to M.Schumacher?

Schumacher u can ask any salary u want if u come drive for us!
( now i think there will be a limit SOMEWERE...)
well happy Schumacher said NO!
But example if Schumacher said : i want a salary of 380Million Dollar in a year..
I'm sure that wouldn't be a problem!

Well i think this could be bad for the F1!!!

Ciao , Danny!

Geo_x are you actually saying that this guy stole technical data from Ferrari and used it to help Toyota?

I knew there were already some fired mechanics by Ferrari Who sold Data to Toyota that's already a fact... but that was mid season..

Ciao , Danny!

what i find funny aobut this is that Toyota actually hired the TOp F1 designer awhile ago so why would they want to steal old car data from ferrari? but its really too early to judge and jump to conclusions right now

I think it is stupid that they prosecuted that guy... anyways... here...

http://www.conceptcarz.com/folder/vehicle.asp?car_id=7019&vehicleTypeID=
http://www.conceptcarz.com/folder/vehicle.asp?car_id=6940&vehicleTypeID=
http://www.conceptcarz.com/folder/vehicle.asp?car_id=7238&vehicleTypeID=

I'm too lazy to find any more I just happened to come across it... I don't know much about F1 cars anyways... ciao!

I don't know guys, i just read it at F1-Live. If i read anything else i let u know. . .

Yes,he is right...Read this:
http://f1.racing-live.com/en/index.html
Well,IMO Toyota wouldnt do that,but if they did it, Police or someone must do something about it.

yeah they should, but remember hte team is not bieng investigated only an employee is

Well nothing new.. :(

they quesitoned 2 more team members but thats about it

Did they do anything at all?Any money penalty or something?

no, thisisi just a criminal investigation so far and they have been questioned nothing else

So, it will be far away from the court or so...

All teams check up on each other, they just want to see if any other team has something new, or improved. Now you can say this isn't true, but that includes Ferrari and Toyota! But this time was just bad luck for Toyota, or they took a too big risc by letting him enter the garage and stuff.

Maybe they didnt have a choice.