New evidence: Fresh allegations Lewis Hamilton race result was ‘rigged’ to help title win –
Jean Todt, a former of Ferrari and the FIA, has backed Felipe Massa in the ongoing legal battle the Brazilian is having with the FIA over the result of the 2008 F1 World Championship. The alleged “rigged” race result helped Lewis Hamilton win the title. Massa is looking for remuneration from the relationship for Nelson Piquet Jr’s “intentional mishap” at the Singapore Fantastic Prix that made him lose the Drivers’ Title that year to Lewis Hamilton.
The FIA was given until mid-October by Massa’s lawyer, Bernardo Viana, to answer to a letter before guarantee that was shipped off them in August. From that point forward, the cutoff time has been broadened, and in the not so distant future, a choice in regards to whether the case could continue to preliminary is expected. Should the matter continue to court, Hamilton could lose his big showdown.
“The goal is to bring the prize home. It has nothing to do with money, Viana told Motorsport.com. To arrive, a few estimates will be taken with various points, some to get data and others to get proclamations. We need all that occurred in 2008/09 to become known.
“We are very sure about the proof we have, without bias to ones extra we are searching for, and without bias to all that will become visible. We are aware that additional information has not been made public.
From 1993 to 2007, Todt was Ferrari’s General Manager of Racing. He believes that the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix was “rigged” and has taken the side of his former driver. I will not get into the discussion, however it was exceptionally hard for him mentally,” Todt told Italian paper La Stampa.
“Perhaps we might have been harder when the story became known, however there is no question that the Singapore Terrific Prix was manipulated, and ought to have been dropped.”
Massa’s legal team says that Max Mosley, then-FIA president, and former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone were involved in a cover-up that cost the ex-Ferrari star an F1 title as well as “tens of millions of euros” in lost income and damage to his reputation.
Ecclestone later said to portray the event in a gathering with F1-Insider: ” Back then, there was a standard that a major confrontation request after the FIA awards capability toward the year’s end was inaccessible. So Hamilton was given the award and everything was perfect.
“We had adequate information to inspect the matter. According to the goals, we should have dropped the race in Singapore under these conditions.”
