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Updated at 2:02 a.m., Friday, July 11, 2008

Autos: McLaren to pay court costs to Ferrari after spying

Associated Press

WOKING, England — The McLaren team settled its legal dispute with Ferrari today, agreeing to pay the Italian team's court costs from the Formula One spying scandal.

McLaren apologized last December after Ferrari data and documents were found at its chief designer's home, resulting in a $100 million fine for McLaren and disqualification from the 2007 constructors championship.

McLaren said today that both sides had agreed to bring the dispute to a final conclusion. The exact terms of the deal were not released, but Ferrari said it would donate the payment from McLaren to charity.

The Italian team said it would continue to pursue its case against former Ferrari mechanic Nigel Stepney. Stepney was head of performance development at Ferrari in July 2007 when the scandal broke after a 780-page technical dossier on Ferrari cars was found at the home of McLaren chief designer Mike Coughlan.

Stepney and Coughlan were later fired by their teams.