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The FIA said: "If it is found in the future that the Ferrari information has been used to the detriment of the championship we reserve the right to invite McLaren back in front of the WMSC where they face the possibility of exclusion from not only 2007 but also 2008 championships."
SO WHAT HAS CHANGED NOW?
What has happened now is that further evidence is going to be put in front of the WMSC. The nub of the new evidence comes in two forms.
One is an email exchange between Coughlan, world champion Fernando Alonso and McLaren test driver Pedro de la Rosa which is alleged to show that Coughlan passed on the information.
At the weekend, Alonso dismissed the claim but we are being told by people within the FIA that there is an email exchange.
Facts are difficult to come by but if there is a trail of information that links Coughlan and pretty much any senior figure at McLaren - and that would include drivers - then the initial claim that Coughlan had not passed on this information will be hard to substantiate.
The second is evidence that has been passed on to this inquiry by the communications police in Italy which appears to show that conversations between Coughlan and Stepney carried on long after it was suggested that they had stopped.
If either of those things are true, then McLaren would appear to be in big trouble.