Kart Box

Turin, Monday, 25 June 2007, 10 pm. In the boardroom of the Scuderiascuderia Italian word for a racing team, used above all for motor racing stables. Ardesia factory, two printed sheets lie on the table: the drawing of the 2007 car's floor and the weight distribution table.

This afternoon, the team director, Ettore Gualandi, got a call from England. On Saturday, a woman took 780 pages stamped "Riservatoriservato Italian for "confidential" or "restricted"; stamped on documents not meant to leave the company. Ardesia" to a copy shop in Guildford and asked for them to be burned onto a CD. The lad behind the counter, a fan of the team, photographed two sheets and sent them.

It is the car's entire technical dossier, the same one the team is using to fight for the title. The director called the police: someone on the inside sent the car across the English Channel.

Three people at the factory knew the way to that paper. One of them knows which box it travelled in.

Glass meeting room at a racing team's factory in Turin, with technical drawings.