Italians press ahead with sabotage claims

(GMM) Alongside the widely reported espionage accusation, Italian prosecutors are also convinced that Nigel Stepney is guilty of sabotage.

Little has been said about the white powder that was apparently added to Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa's fuel tanks in the days before the Monaco grand prix.

But the daily sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport says the prosecutors do indeed think that Michael Schumacher's former chief mechanic poured at least half a kilogram of an unidentified corrosive into the cars in an attempt to damage the engines.

More details about this element of the Stepney-gate scandal are expected to be released in August.