Felipe Massa says “I’m not doing this for money” ahead of awkward Lewis Hamilton reunion at F1 Miami Grand Prix
Massa was already celebrating in 2008, thinking he had clinched the title, when he was pipped by a young Hamilton who was then drivin🌸g for McLaren.
The addition of the ‘crashgate’ scandal ha༺s enabled Massa to seek to reverse results from 15 years ago.
‘Crashgate’ saw Renault’s Nelson Piquet Jr intentionally crash at the Singapore Grand Prix, for which he was l𝔍ater punished. The knock-on effect was that Ferrari botched Massa’s pitstop, costing him points in the title chase.
Bernie Ecclestone, then-F1 supremo,ꦫ has since claimed that senior officials knew about Piquet Jr’s intentional crash.
"I think the first thing when Bernie's comment [came out] I was really, really surprised, for those comments,” Massa told from the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 Miami Grand Prix, where he could awkwardly reunite with Hamilton.
“Because everybody knows what'ꦏs happe☂ned in the race, everything came out in 2009.
"We hear after that also that Charlie [Whiting] knew and Max [Mosley], so for𝓡 me it's the injustice for the sport.
“It shows that maybe every decisi𓆏on on the legal side, everything that happens, it was not correct on that situation.
“So I took the 🥂decision to study on the legal side everything that happened.
"I'm not doing this for money. I'm not doing this for any𓆉thing.
“Becau🐭se it's not what I aim to, but I'm doing this🌟 for the justice.
“Not only for me, buꦯt for my friends, my country, my family, Ferrari and Ferrari fans, so in the end there are so many things.
"You know what a championship doe🧸s for a country? You can develop the country, we don't have Brazilian drivers now racing as well, so there are so many things.
"This is racing, everything that went wrong is part of the game. When you have a problem in the engine or when you hཧave a mistake.
“You cannot really say 'I was wrong because my engine broke📖 down' No. But what happened on that race is a different situation.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from Amerꦅican sports, to football, to F1.
