I didn’t say anything like that, and the interview doesn’t agree either. Massa? He’s all about the money, says former F1 boss

Former Formula One driver Felipe Massa is currently pursuing a lawsuit in connection with the 2008 championship fight. However, the former boss of the queen of motorsport, Bernie Ecclestone, has objected to the Brazilian’s legal action, stating that he is only after the money.

The affair surrounding former driver Felipe Massa has been running since about April this year. The now forty-two-year-old Brazilian’s legal action was prompted by the words of former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone.

We have written in more detail about the case in a previous article. And we also recalled the 2008 season’s championship fight, specifically what happened in the then Singapore Grand Prix as part of the Crashgate scandal.

Earlier in the year, Ecclestone provided a statement to F1-Insider in which he admitted that he and then FIA President Max Mosley were still informed during the 2008 season about what actually happened in Singapore.

But they allegedly decided not to take any action to protect the sport and F1 from a huge scandal.

“At the time, the rule was that the World Championship standings were sacrosanct after the FIA awards ceremony at the end of the year. So Hamilton was handed the championship trophy and everything was fine,” Ecclestone said in that interview.

“I still feel sorry for Massa today. He won the final at his home race in Sao Paulo and he did everything right. He was robbed of a well-deserved title, while Hamilton had all the luck in the world and won his first title. I would have done things differently today,” added the former F1 boss.

I said no such thing and the interview doesn’t agree either?

Those were the words that prompted Massa and those around him to act. In any case, Racing News 365 reports that Ecclestone has since recanted his words and can’t recall such an interview where he acknowledged wrongdoing.

However, Massa’s legal team is now demanding that the Singapore Grand Prix results be retrospectively annulled. This would see his biggest rival for the title, Lewis Hamilton, lose six points for third place, making Massa the world champion retrospectively.

But the second thing is that it is not yet clear by what mechanism he could actually achieve the coveted title. After all, protests against the final results are only allowed a few days before the FIA hands over the championship trophy to the driver.

“The Massa clan is all about money, but their chances are zero,” Ecclestone said in the latest interview with German magazine Blick.

Whether Massa and co. will be able to bring this case to a successful conclusion is questionable. However, the lawsuit has made it all the way to the UK High Court in London.

Source: F1, Racing News 365