Felipe Massa recently announced that he was investigating whether the 2008 world championship hatching could be challenged.
GPblog previously explained why any case is doomed to fail. Even
McLaren, which had the eventual world champion in '08 with
Lewis Hamilton, does not seem to think the claim makes any sense. The English team even pokes fun at it.
Massa, driving for
Ferrari at the time, stated in an interview with the Brazilian edition of Motorsport that he would look at whether the outcome of the title fight could still be overturned. According to Massa, the
FIA was aware of crashgate back in 2008 during the Singapore GP, when
Nelson Piquet Jr. crashed on purpose.
This allowed Fernando Alonso to make a free pit stop and win the race. Massa did not pick up any points and fell short of the world title at the end of the season. Since the
FIA already knew about it at the time, according to an interview with then-
F1 boss
Bernie Ecclestone, Massa said the Grand Prix should have been declared invalid.
Retrieved from
TikTok, McLaren has posted a video about the 2008 season, and the team has done so with an obvious wink. It reads: "
Denial is a river in Egypt."