lewis hamilton He was world champion for the first time in his life in the 2008 season with the McLaren team. The year in which the Singapore scandal occurred, in which he was sanctioned Flavio Briatore to send to nelsinho piquet deliberate accident.
Bernie Ecclestone acknowledged that it was a mistake not to take any decision on the matter: “We wanted to protect the sport and save him from a huge scandal…”.
“That means there would be no impact on the championship standings. And Felipe Massa would have become world champion and not Lewis Hamilton. Even today I still feel sorry for Massa. I feel sorry for him,” said the former head of the Great Circus.
And now Massa, the great victim of that, has reacted by saying that he plans to challenge that season: “There were punishments for Briatore and Pat Symondswhereas with the result of something that was stolen nothing happened…”.
“It was shown that there was a robbery. At the time, the Ferrari lawyers told me about this rule, we went to other lawyers and the answer was that nothing could be done. Logically, I believed in that situation”, commented the Brazilian ex-driver.
He assures that Ecclestone’s words were “very sad”. Above all “discover the whole truth”: “Knowing that something was stolen from you, that the result of that race had to be annulled and I would have a title. In the end, the biggest loser with that result was me. We go further to understand all this…”.
“I would seek justice. I think that if you have been punished for something that has not been your fault, it is the product of a robbery, of a stolen race, justice must be done. In fact, the right thing to do is annul the result of that race…”asks Massa.
And he makes it clear that he is not interested in compensation, but the F1 champion title: “Sue the FIA to earn money but without changing the result? That does not interest me. What interests me is the proper justice of this situation.”
