{"id":290488,"date":"2023-09-08T21:34:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T21:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usasportsradar.com\/?p=290488"},"modified":"2023-09-08T21:34:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T21:34:03","slug":"f1-have-until-the-end-of-friday-to-respond-to-felipe-massas-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usasportsradar.com\/racing\/f1\/f1-have-until-the-end-of-friday-to-respond-to-felipe-massas-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 &apos;have until the end of Friday&apos; to respond to Felipe Massa&apos;s lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Formula One chiefs &#8216;had until the end of Friday&#8217; to respond to Felipe Massa&#8217;s lawyers &#8211; who seek to take the 2008 title away from Lewis Hamilton over the &#8216;stolen Crashgate race&#8217;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Felipe Massa insists he was &#8216;totally wronged&#8217; at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>His lawyers have since taken legal action in a bid to take the title from Hamilton<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Reports now claim that Formula One have until the end of Friday to respond\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Formula One had until the end of Friday in order to respond to the legal claims made by Felipe Massa&#8217;s lawyers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In May, Massa insisted he was &#8216;totally wronged&#8217; during the controversial 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, following Bernie Ecclestone&#8217;s bombshell admissions, and launched legal action in a bid to have the title\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former Ferrari star relayed his desires to press on with legal action against the FIA in an attempt to have the title awarded in his favour, retrospectively.<\/p>\n<p>Massa&#8217;s lawyers sent an eight-page &#8216;Letter Before Claim&#8217; to the F1 in August and it&#8217;s now been revealed that the organisation have until the end of Friday to respond.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Independent, the initial letter set a request for a reply of 14 days but responses from F1 and the FIA indicated that two weeks was not enough time and thus Massa&#8217;s legal team set a new deadline of 4pm on Friday 8th September.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/08\/20\/75227993-12497427-image-a-2_1694201044376.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Felipe Massa has taken legal action over the outcome of the 2008 world driver&#8217;s championship<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/08\/20\/69497755-12497427-The_2008_Singapore_race_is_remembered_for_the_Crashgate_affair_w-a-3_1694201167390.jpg\" height=\"414\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The 2008 Singapore race is remembered for the &#8216;Crashgate&#8217; affair, which allegedly saw Renault plan for Nelson Piquet to deliberately crash in order to bring out a safety car (pictured)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/08\/20\/70672157-12497427-Lewis_Hamilton_right_and_Massa_left_were_the_main_championship_c-a-4_1694201170303.jpg\" height=\"424\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton (right) and Massa (left) were the main championship challengers in 2008<\/p>\n<p>The former Ferrari star lost the title in 2008 to McLaren&#8217;s Lewis Hamilton by just a single point on the last lap of the final race of the season, in one of the most exciting finishes in F1 history.<\/p>\n<p>However, Massa&#8217;s hopes for the title had already taken a massive hit in Singapore , when it later claimed that Nelson Piquet had deliberately crashed his Renault into the wall in a bid to help team-mate Fernando Alonso &#8216;s own championship ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed as &#8216;Crashgate&#8217; the scandal saw Massa drop from first to 13th as Alonso won the race. It had pivotal implications as Massa eventually lost the championship by a point on the final day to Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>In comments made in April, Ecclestone has indicated the F1 top brass knew about the Renault conspiracy &#8216;during the 2008 season&#8217;, when there would have been time to overturn the final result, only angering Massa.<\/p>\n<p>In May, he reiterated his desire to press forward with what he believes is a strong case.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I consider myself with great chances of having had that title,&#8217; he told esportelandia. &#8216;If you remember Singapore, it was a steal. After Bernie Ecclestone spoke about it, we are trying to understand, legally, if there is any chance of going back.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And the Brazilian implied Ecclestone&#8217;s admission proved &#8216;Crashgate&#8217; was fixed: &#8216;So it just goes to show that I was totally wronged by what happened that year, in a stolen race,&#8217; he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/08\/20\/69497757-12497427-Felipe_Massa_left_is_looking_into_challenging_the_controversial_-a-5_1694201185258.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Massa believes he had a &#8216;great chances of having that title&#8217; which has lead to his legal claims<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This made me lift the antenna and go after justice. I&#8217;m not a lawyer, but everyone knows, I was clearly wronged and I think justice is part of our fight to get what happened right.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That was a stolen run. It was manipulation, which is a very serious thing. It wasn&#8217;t an engine that broke down. There was also an engine that broke, but that&#8217;s part of the game. They made Nelsinho Piquet crash because he wanted to help his team-mate, who was last in the race, to win. They totally did a manipulation for a result.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Massa acknowledges that he might not have much luck with changing a result after almost 15 years, but he&#8217;s still interested in finding out what his chances are.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There are rules, and there are many things that, depending on the country, you cannot go back after 15 years to resolve a situation,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/formulaone\/article-12497427\/Formula-One-chiefs-end-Friday-respond-Felipe-Massas-lawyers-seek-2008-title-away-Lewis-Hamilton-stolen-Crashgate-race.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formula One chiefs &#8216;had until the end of Friday&#8217; to respond to Felipe Massa&#8217;s lawyers &#8211; who seek to take [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>F1 &amp;apos;have until the end of Friday&amp;apos; 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