Sep.11 (GMM) Luca di Montezemolo on Tuesday said Ferrari would accept the world championship this year even if was won in the courts.

In Frankfurt for the famous auto show, the Maranello based marque's president said if championship leader McLaren is disqualified on Thursday by the World Motor Sport Council, "it would be a deserved victory" for the Prancing Horse.

"To win the world title at the table (rather than on the track) would in any case be a deserved victory," Montezemolo is quoted as saying in Germany by Gazzetta dello Sport, where Michael Schumacher helped him launch the new 430 model.

He added: "We would deserve it because it would have been won in the other case in a way that was not correct, not legal and not sporting."

Montezemolo, meanwhile, echoed other F1 voices that say the entire espionage saga is not good for the sport.

"The less spoken about it the better," he agreed. "It interests us that this ugly chronicle is closed in a hurry but above all with the truth exposed."

DaimlerChrysler president Dieter Zetsche, linked with McLaren through its subsidiary Mercedes-Benz, was also at the Frankfurt auto show, where he was similarly asked about Thursday's Paris hearing.

"We wait for Thursday with tranquillity; we will see what happens," he told the news agency dpa.