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Frankly, the whole thing about checking the cars are pointless.
1) Mclaren (and so i choose to believe) is not to be blamed for the act of one man, and there's precious little way to prove how the cars are different to the Ferrari or if they had benefitted from the technical data. Mike could have seen the Ferrari data, then pass it off as his own by adapting the ideas onto the Mclaren. There's just no way to prove, and the drawings and information will still bear Mclaren letterheads.
2) It's unfair to punish the whole Mclaren team, and although Ferrari is the rightful owner to the technical datas and would know, it's also unfair to let Ferrari (a rival team) inspect the Mclaren car, because there are many components that are the hardwork of the Mclaren team.
3) As much as FIA is the governing body, they are still out of their depths against the top teams. They cannot even come up with a concrete case against Aguri/Honda, Ligier/Benetton, Torro Rosso/Red Bull, and had much difficulty doing much for the Ferrari/Toyota case.
Mclaren offered to open up, good. But it's set to go sour that for the hardwork and effort Mclaren put into their winning machine, now there's a black cloud because of one of their "senior employee". Unfortunate.
I think its very unlikely Mclaren will be thrown out of the championship.
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