Formula 1 and another controversy: why Felipe Massa claims the 2008 season title won by Hamilton

In 2008 Filippo Massa It could have been World Champion of the Formula 1but an accident in the Singapore Grand Prix it would create a snowball that would locate hamilton first at the end of the season and the Brazilian second by just one point.

The former pilot of Ferrari AND Williams filed a complaint today with High Court of Justice, London against the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) and Formula One Management (FOM). “correct historical injustice”.

The Brazilian questions the result of the World Cup 2008 and, above all, the Singapore Grand Prix in which the team leaders participated renault They caused the Brazilian pilot’s accident Nelson Piquet Jr. to bring the safety car onto the track.

Massa, who had finished first, lost his advantage over Renault’s main driver, Fernando Alonso. A bad stop Ferrari made the Brazilian finish 13th and gave the victory to Asturian.

Renault was eventually punished for that action and its team principal, Flavio Briatore, was suspended and denied access to supervised competitions. The career search was done once the championship finished.

He document presented di Massa requests “that it be declared that if the FIA ​​had not violated its regulations, it would have canceled or modified the results of the Singapore Grand Prix with the consequence that the Mr. Massa would win the 2008 drivers’ championship”.

That race ended up being the Domino effect so at the end of the season hamilton He will retain the title one point above Massa. That of St. Paul I wouldn’t fight for a championship again and would leave F1 in 2017.

He made his Formula 1 debut in 2002 racing with Red Bull Sauber He competed in 16 Grands Prix of which he finished eight and abandoned another eight. He didn’t run again until 2004, when he was again considered the RB. In 2006 it became Ferrari and raced there until 2013.

With the prancing Horse sumo 923 points. Won 11 races and his best finish in a championship was that second place in 2008 and a third place in 2006, in 2014 he went to Williams and ran with the English team until 2017.

Today, 16 years later, Mass sues the highest entities in motor sports to ensure that the championship of Formula 1Furthermore, a financial compensation that would be between 64 and 150 million pounds.

“The matter now rests with lawyers, who are fully empowered to do everything necessary to ensure that justice is done in sport,” he added.

Massa’s intimations against the FIA and the FOM They started last year when the Brazilian warned that he would then resort to the last resort Bernie Ecclestoneformer president of F1, acknowledged that he and the then president of the FIA, Max Mosleythey chose to do nothing despite knowing about the irregularities committed Singapore.

The pilot’s fight 42 years old being crowned champion is far from over, we will have to wait for the moment of British justice to know if Brazil will add their third world champion alongside Ayrton Senna AND Nelson Piquet father.