{"id":288476,"date":"2023-09-12T17:36:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T17:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=288476"},"modified":"2023-09-12T17:36:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T17:36:17","slug":"massas-legal-team-are-hoping-for-support-from-hamilton-in-legal-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/racing\/f1\/massas-legal-team-are-hoping-for-support-from-hamilton-in-legal-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Massa&apos;s legal team are hoping for support from Hamilton in legal case"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Felipe Massa&#8217;s legal team admit that they are &#8216;hoping for support from former rival Lewis Hamilton&#8217; in case to overturn 2008 Formula One title outcome&#8230; which the Englishman won by ONE point after &#8216;Crashgate&#8217; scandal<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Massa&#8217;s legal team are hoping for support from Hamilton in their legal case\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The former F1 driver lost the championship to Hamilton by one point in 2008\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>There was a huge scandal as\u00a0Nelson Piquet deliberately crashed into Massa\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Felipe Massa&#8217;s legal team are hoping for support from Lewis Hamilton in their appeal to overturn the outcome of the 2008 Formula One drivers&#8217; title.<\/p>\n<p>This comes following reports in April\u00a0that Massa could start legal action against Hamilton after Bernie Ecclestone believed Singapore&#8217;s &#8216;Crashgate&#8217; result should have been cancelled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since then, former F1 star Massa said that he would take legal action to &#8216;gain justice&#8217; as his team believed that he missed out after losing that year&#8217;s championship by one point to Hamilton of McLaren.<\/p>\n<p>Sao Paulo Vieira Rezende Advogados are representing Massa in his case and have urged Hamilton to assist their case.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Reuters, Bernardo Viana of the law firm that represent Massa, said:\u00a0&#8216;He (Hamilton) is an honorary Brazilian citizen and very well liked by Brazilians, so I hope he will support us.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/12\/17\/75343999-0-image-a-24_1694537037738.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Felipe Massa&#8217;s legal team are hoping for support from Lewis Hamilton in their legal action<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/12\/17\/75344001-0-image-a-25_1694537051473.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Former F1 star Massa said that he would take legal action to &#8216;gain justice&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/12\/17\/75344005-0-image-a-26_1694537088920.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Nelson Piquet deliberately crashed Massa&#8217;s into a wall in a bid to help Fernando Alonso<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They continued to praise the Englishman, revealing that the case is not against Hamilton but is to defend sporting integrity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He is an important ambassador for the sport and has always defended sporting integrity,&#8217; Viana continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We have absolutely nothing against Hamilton.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen as to whether Hamilton will support the case, with the scandal in Singapore dubbed as &#8216;Crashgate&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Massa&#8217;s hopes for the title took a huge hit in Singapore, when it was revealed that Nelson Piquet had deliberately crashed Massa&#8217;s Renault into the wall in a bid to help team-mate Fernando Alonso&#8217;s championship ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone has since commented on the incident as he revealed that the race should have been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We had enough information in time to investigate the matter,&#8217; he said. &#8216;According to the statutes, we should have cancelled the race in Singapore under these conditions.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/formulaone\/article-12509951\/Felipe-Massas-Lewis-Hamilton-2008-Formula-One-title-crashgate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Felipe Massa&#8217;s legal team admit that they are &#8216;hoping for support from former rival Lewis Hamilton&#8217; in case to overturn 2008 Formula One title outcome&#8230; <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/racing\/f1\/massas-legal-team-are-hoping-for-support-from-hamilton-in-legal-case\/\" title=\"Massa&amp;apos;s legal team are hoping for support from Hamilton in legal case\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288475,"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>Massa&amp;apos;s legal team are hoping for support from Hamilton in legal case - Sportstoft<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/racing\/f1\/massas-legal-team-are-hoping-for-support-from-hamilton-in-legal-case\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Massa&amp;apos;s legal team are hoping for support from Hamilton in legal case - Sportstoft\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Felipe Massa&#8217;s legal team admit that they are &#8216;hoping for support from former rival Lewis Hamilton&#8217; 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