{"id":30461,"date":"2024-03-11T19:55:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T16:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/30461\/massa-sues-fia-fom-and\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T19:55:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T16:55:43","slug":"massa-sues-fia-fom-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=30461","title":{"rendered":"Massa sues FIA, FOM and Ecclestone in bid to claim 2008 title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massa sues FIA, FOM and Ecclestone in bid to claim 2008 title\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former Formula One driver Felipe Massa said on Monday he had launched legal action in a London court against the FIA, motorsport&#39;s governing body, series owner Formula One Management (FOM) and former FOM CEO Bernie Ecclestone in his bid to win the 2008 title.<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old Brazilian added that he was seeking an undisclosed amount of damages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Unlapped: How to listen or watch the ESPN F1 broadcast<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Massa, who has declared since last year that he was the &#8220;legitimate&#8221; champion of 2008 due to the incident known as &#8220;Crashgate&#8221;, was the runner-up in the drivers&#39; championship behind Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>Former Ferrari and Williams driver Massa said in a statement that his case would be heard by the King&#39;s Bench division of the High Court.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Felipe Massa believes he should <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a> the 2008 championship. <cite>Getty<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Massa, who retired in 2017, was leading the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix when fellow Brazilian Nelson Piquet Jr. deliberately crashed his Renault into the wall on lap 14 of the 61-lap race.<\/p>\n<p>The crash triggered a safety car that benefited teammate Fernando Alonso, who took victory while Massa failed to score after a botched pit stop.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton, who was racing for McLaren at the time and now an honorary citizen of Brazil, ultimately beat Massa by a point for the first of his record seven championships.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Schumacher, Massa&#39;s former teammate at Ferrari and a close friend of the Brazilian during his racing career, is the only other driver to have won seven titles.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, F1 had a rule that the outcome of a championship could not be changed after the end-of-season awards ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><em>Information from The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massa sues FIA, FOM and Ecclestone in bid to claim 2008 title\u060c Former Formula One driver Felipe Massa said on Monday he had launched legal action in a London court against the FIA, motorsport&#39;s governing body, series owner Formula One Management (FOM) and former FOM CEO Bernie Ecclestone in his bid to win the 2008 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[880,771,11791,1890,11790,11789,579,1201],"class_list":["post-30461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-bid","tag-claim","tag-ecclestone","tag-fia","tag-fom","tag-massa","tag-sues","tag-title"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30463,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30461\/revisions\/30463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}