This week, the authorized case strongly initiated by Felipe Massa towards the FIA and FOM is underway, as he seeks compensation relating to the 2008 World Championship. The episode in query is clearly the Singapore crash gate, which allegedly influenced the ultimate consequence, successfully costing the Brazilian the championship.
Throughout the Marina Bay race, driver Nelsinho Piquet reportedly precipitated a deliberate crash to permit his teammate, Fernando Alonso, to make a pit cease underneath the Security Automobile and consequently win the race. On that event, Felipe skilled a disastrous pit cease that precipitated him to lose essential factors within the title battle towards Lewis Hamilton. Just lately, Bernie Ecclestone, then CEO of Components 1, declared that he was conscious of this scandal orchestrated by Renault however determined to cowl it up.
The Worldwide Federation, as reported by RacingNews365, issued a doc explaining its stance on the motive force’s claims: “Mr. Massa’s requests are tortuous in addition to excessively formidable.” The previous Ferrari driver is reportedly demanding a major sum of cash and an acknowledgment of fault from the FIA.
“The multi-millionaire Brazilian citizen and resident has filed a declare on this jurisdiction of England and Wales, based mostly on an alleged violation of the FIA’s supranational rules, a non-public worldwide sporting group based mostly in France, in relation to occasions that occurred in the course of the Singapore Grand Prix over 17 years in the past, on September 28, 2008,” the assertion reads.
The FIA additionally emphasizes the obligations of Massa and Ferrari relating to the 2008 World Championship end result: “Mr. Massa’s declare overlooks a sequence of errors dedicated by himself or his crew, Ferrari, in the course of the Singapore GP and in different Grand Prix that contributed to the second-place end within the Drivers’ Championship that season.”
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