Felipe Massa has lodged a legal action against the three parties involved in the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix scandal, seeking to void the race result. Massa believes that the deliberate crash by Nelson Piquet Jr, which helped Fernando Alonso win the race, unfairly affected the championship outcome.
On Monday, representatives of Massa confirmed that action has been lodged in the High Court of Justice against the three parties as the Brazilian, who missed out on the 2008 F1 drivers' title to then-McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton by one point, believes that the result of the Marina Bay race should be voided. Infamously, Renault driver Nelson Piquet Jr deliberately crashed to trigger a safety car, which enabled team-mate Fernando Alonso to take the victory.
Hamilton finished second, as Massa failed to score following a botched pitstop when he set off with the fuel hose still attached. In an interview last year, Ecclestone claimed that there was sufficient information available at the time for the case to have been investigated and the result was thrown out. However, the former F1 supremo later said that he did not remember giving the intervie
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