Felipe Massa recently filed a legal court case against F1 and FIA in regard to his 2008 title. The driver believes he was conspired against during the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix which cost him his title. The driver was up against Lewis Hamilton who was on his way to winning the championship.
However, Massa was only a few points away from winning it all. But the Singapore race took a turn for the worse when Massa was caught in a controversial incident.
Massa became a part of a controversial incident which came to be known as the “Crashgate” incident. During the Singapore Grand Prix 2008, Massa was driving to clinch his title. That was when Nelson Piquet Jr. deliberately crashed into another driver which affected the performance of a lot of other drivers.
This was done to give his teammate Fernando Alonso a better chance at winning. However, this caused the Brazilian driver to fall back in the race and was in turn a runner-up to Lewis Hamilton.
In addition to the incident, Ecclestone, the residing Chief Executive of F1 at the time, came out to confess that he was aware of the crash before it happened at the start of the year. However, when Massa filed a legal case, the ex-member of FIA stepped back from his statements saying he had no memory of it whatsoever. On the contrary, Massa has been left with dead ends but has planned to continue his fight for his title.
Felipe Massa wants to bring the sport to justice
Felipe Massa took his time from his court case to sit and talk about the situation. In the Brazilian’s words, he is not doing this for the money but for the justice of the sport. He expressed his beliefs saying that the sport is not a corrupted bandwagon but something that he has loved for a long time. Massa’s step to make legal attempts towards the sport is to bring to light the fact that F1 is not a manipulated game of checkers.
When talking to Motorsports.com, Felipe Massa said, “That’s why we decided to get together a very big and important legal team. I’m doing that for the sport, I’m doing that to show that manipulation is not part of our sport. I am not doing that for money. I’m doing that for the justice of the sport. So, whatever people trying to write about the money is completely wrong.”
However, he also mentioned that he does deserve compensation for the turmoil that the incident caused in his career.
“Compensation definitely exists,” he added.
The ex-Ferrari driver has plans to continue to fight the battle against F1, FIA, and FOM. Massa believes he is the deserving candidate for the 2008 title. Although it has been made clear that the results cannot change. The 2008 title will continue to belong in Lewis Hamilton‘s CV. Nonetheless, Massa expects monetary compensation.