In an interview with GE, Brazilian runner believes that those involved in the Singapore scandal were not penalized after Nelson Piquet Jr’s deliberate crash
Felipe Massa managed to take the first step towards filing a lawsuit against the AIF and the FOM about the title he lost from Formula 1 2008, which ended up being won by the English lewis hamilton by one point of difference. This Wednesday, the 23rd, the Brazilian pilot gave an interview to GE where he spoke about the process.
The pilot criticized Singaporegate, an episode in which Nelson Piquet Jr hit on purpose in order to benefit his teammate, Fernando Alonsoat the singapore grand prixcalling the event “theft”.
“When we see that something has been manipulated, when we see that there has been a trick, a robbery… We get very upset. Logically, I found out in 2009 and did everything possible to show that things were not happening the right way, because in the end no one was punished for what happened. They were punished, but after two years Pat Symonds came back, Briatore who was going to be punished forever from working in F1 came back in a short time, he was released. Nothing happened to the team. In the end, no one was punished for a robbery.”said Massa.
the action of Felipe Massa is motivated by statements made by Bernie Ecclestonewho revealed in March of this year that he had discovered the deliberate content of the collision during the 2008 season. F1 claimed that he and Max Mosleypresident of AIF at the time, they did not open investigations to obtain “protect the sport and save it from scandal”.
Source: sportbuzz
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