Fernando Alonso "shouldn't have been blamed" for Spygate
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Pedro de la Rosa has said that Fernando Alonso was unfairly blamed for the Spygate scandal. The two time world champion was blamed for revealing information to the FIA which led to McLaren being fined $100 million in 2007.
“That situation was like a divorce inside the team,” De la Rosa told the official F1 website. “The relationship was not good before, but that was like the complete divorce.
“The fact the FIA knew about it raised many questions over who had passed this information to the FIA. And everyone seemed to blame Fernando for something that we didn’t know and we have zero evidence that he did."
De la Rosa believes that Alonso was unfairly blamed for what went on.
“I think that we all make many mistakes,” he said. “At the end of the day, Fernando, he’s a critical guy, he says things to the face when he doesn’t how people are working or doing things, and I think he got a lot of the blame for actually something that was not… I mean, let’s be honest, the guy didn’t do anything wrong.
“He was blamed for the this spy scandal, Spygate, then he shouldn’t have been. And I think that the during the years, everyone has realised that Fernando was just caught in the middle of the fight like I was as well and many, many people. But there was other fights going on at the high levels that we were not aware of actually at that point.”