Massa believes he was the sufferer of a conspiracy to cowl up the 2008 Singapore GP Crashgate scandal through which Renault’s Nelson Piquet Jr crashed on goal to let team-mate Fernando Alonso win.
If the race outcome had been thrown out on the time, Massa would have claimed the drivers’ championship as a substitute of shedding it to McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton by one level.
Massa has assembled a complete authorized workforce that alleged the Brazilian suffered “tens of hundreds of thousands of euros” of missed earnings in addition to reputational hurt and had set a 12 October deadline for the FIA and FOM to reply to its queries or face it within the UK’s Excessive Courtroom.
His authorized workforce has now stated it has granted each our bodies till 15 November to complete their investigations earlier than taking subsequent steps.
“FIA and FOM are finishing an inner investigation and have requested one final extension to the deadline they initially requested for, from 12 October to fifteen November,” stated Massa’s lawyer Bernardo Viana.
“We’ve got agreed to this closing interval as a result of if the brand new administration is certainly wanting into the matter in good religion, they are going to actually attain the identical conclusion we and so many individuals around the globe have.
“We wish to know what Method 1’s new management’s place is on the lately disclosed scandal and the injustice confronted by Felipe Massa.”
Felipe Massa, Ferrari F2008, and Lewis Hamilton, McLaren MP4-23 Mercedes
Photograph by: Steven Tee / Motorsport Images
Chatting with Autosport sister website motorsport.uol.com.br finally weekend’s Inventory Automobile Sequence spherical in Buenos Aires, Massa stated he nonetheless hopes Ferrari – his workforce on the time – will lend him assist within the matter.
“To be trustworthy, we spoke within the letters on the authorized facet, however I do not see the purpose why Ferrari wouldn’t be on my facet,” he stated.
“As a result of we misplaced the championship, they took away the championship from us, from me and from Ferrari. Once you hear Toto Wolff talking about 2021, Ferrari must do the identical.
“Ferrari must battle for the most effective of the workforce and I do not see actually Ferrari away from the manipulation which occurred to me.
“For the second, they did not actually say, ‘Okay, we’re collectively’. I believe they’re ready to see what is going on to occur.”
Talking finally month’s Singapore Grand Prix, Mercedes chief Wolff stated he would comply with the matter “with curiosity” given the workforce’s grievances over the conclusion of the 2021 championship in Abu Dhabi, however added that he would not imagine Massa’s problem shall be profitable.
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“I do not assume he has a case, to be trustworthy,” stated Wolff. “We’re signing as much as sporting rules. They’re very clear, and also you commit as a licence holder.
“If all people have been to open up conditions then the game can be in disarray.”
Extra reporting by Federico Faturos