‘My case is manipulation’ - Felipe Massa on why 2008 can't be compared to Abu Dhabi 2021
Massa’s lawyers announced earlier this year that they would be contesting tꦰhe result of the 2008 season due to what happened in Singapore.
Renault fixed the inaugural race at the Marina Bay Street Circuit by ordering Nelson Piquet Jr. to crash out on purpose to aid 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso’s chances.
The crash res๊ulted in an untimely Safety Car forꦍ Massa - who was leading the race at the time - but lost out at the pit stop phase after the fuel hose didn’t get detached from his car.
Massa wou🐎ld go on to lose the t🐼itle to Hamilton in the final round in Brazil by a single point.
15 years on, Massa is pursuing legal action after former F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone suggested that he and ex-FIA president Max Mosely was aware of what happened☂ in Sin꧙gapore but didn’t act on it.
, Massa explained why his case is completely different."It is the most important thing that people need to understand, that before you say: 'Oh if Felipe wins the case, every championship that has some grey areas will change,” he s🅘aid.
"The only difference between all these championships and what happened 💜was maybe a mistake [from officials], maybe crashes or maybe a result that was not corrected by the F💧IA on the sporting side because of a technical issue or whatever, these cases were related to that.
"My case is related to manipulation, related to sabotage and it is a completely different situation. It is a completely differe🅰nt situation and my case was investigated as the race in Singapore was manipulated.
"This was a ye😼ar after, and unfortunately there was a rule saying that if it was not in the same year, the result of the championship♋ cannot be changed.
"But then after 15 years, we hear that Bernie Ecclestone said he knew in 2008, we hear that [former race director]💮 Charlie Whiting knew in 2008 and they didn't do anything to not ☂risk the brand of Formula 1.
"So my case is♛ a manipulation case, it is not sporting, technical or anything else. You need to separate the difference between my case and all of the others.
"I think maybe sometimes people don't understand the difference𝕴 between what happened in my case in 2008 compared to maybe the other cases [such as 1994 or 2021]."
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