A 12 months and a half after the Brazilian’s first transfer to annul the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, British courts have scheduled the primary hearings to handle the matter.
A 12 months and a half after taking the preliminary authorized steps to assert the 2008 Components 1 World Championship, the English court docket has set the primary hearings for Felipe Massa’s case, associated to that 12 months’s Singapore Grand Prix.
Between October 28 and 31, representatives from the Worldwide Car Federation (FIA), Components One Administration (FOM), and Bernie Ecclestone shall be current to handle the authorized features of the case.
Felipe Massa’s determination to take the championship to court docket got here after Bernie Ecclestone, in an interview with F1-Insider, admitted that he and Max Mosley (then FIA president) had been conscious of Nelsinho Piquet’s intentional crash in Singapore earlier than the tip of the 2008 season and that they’d not take motion to “keep away from tarnishing the picture” of F1.
Felipe Massa’s protection argues that the Brazilian was the sufferer of a conspiracy by the FIA and FOM, not regarding Piquet’s crash, however the subsequent actions, with the organizations intentionally failing to take motion even after studying in regards to the incident.