Coughlan still silent amid spy saga
Sacked Ferrari veteran Nigel Stepney was widely quoted by British newspapers at the weekend, and team bosses Jean Todt (Ferrari), Ron Dennis (McLaren) and even Honda's Nick Fry have all made themselves available to the media as speculation ran wild last week and over the course of the British grand prix weekend.
Plenty of unanswered questions, however, remain in McLaren chief designer Coughlan's court, after it was alleged that the Briton received up to 700 pages of documents bearing the 'confidential' stamps of the Prancing Horse.
Stepney said: "I have no idea how anything came into Mike's possession. I don't even know for sure that he has had documents. Do you know for sure?"
More will be known after Coughlan's case hits the London High Court for a public hearing on Tuesday, as Todt has now revealed.
The Ferrari boss explained: "Our lawyers went to visit the house of one of the top management people from a competitors' team.
"They decided after that, that they have some facts, which allowed them to move forward. And to move forward is to go to the High Court on Tuesday."
For the moment, the only insight into 47-year-old Coughlan's position following his suspension from McLaren is courtesy of an unnamed 'source in the McLaren team' who spoke to the International Herald Tribune on Monday.
The source "reported that Coughlan said he did not know who had sent him the material that had been found. He also said that when he received the material, he had asked one of his superiors – but not Dennis – what he should do with it," the newspaper added.