The McLaren-Mercedes Formula One team’s drivers and other team personnel had used or received confidential information belonging to arch rival Ferrari, according to evidence published by the FIA World Motor Sport Council, the governing body.

The detailed nature of the findings, set out in the council’s 14-page judgment, may make it difficult for McLaren to lodge any appeal against the $100m (£49.3m) fine and exclusion from this year’s F1’s constructors’ championship, imposed after an all-day hearing in Paris on Thursday.