The news that Felipe Massa possibly plans to challenge the outcome of the 2008 F1 world championship has re-opened interest in Crashgate. Now, unaired interviews confirm the FIA knew about the incident, but could do nothing at the time ⬇️
Felipe Massa’s revelation that he plans to see if there are legal avenues to challenge the 2008 Formula 1 world championship outcome has re-opened intrigue over that year’s Crashgate controversy.Massa’s actions have been prompted by recent comments from former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone regarding the fall-out from Nelson Piquet Jr’s deliberate crash in the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix that helped his Renault team win.
For the Brazilian would have every right to feel aggrieved that, if the FIA did know about it during 2008 when the results of that season could have been changed, then why was it not investigated immediately? “But it was in Brazil, and I was talking to Nelson Piquet [Sr]. I was his mechanic for a number of years, and we'd remained good friends.
Whiting’s version of events was backed up by Piquet Sr himself at the time, who confirmed to investigators in 2009 when he first informed Whiting. “Then Nelson Jr was fired by the team [in the summer of 2009]. Nelson Sr came to see me in Monaco, and told me the story. I didn't say I already knew this, I just said that this is terrible.”
He added: “[They were] smuggled into the paddock, because I knew that nobody had to know, not even Bernie, that they were there. Because if Flavio found out, he could have shut the whole thing down.”
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