Bernie Ecclestone has had h🧔is say about F🌊elipe Massa’s new lawsuit over Crashgate.

Massa has started legal proceedings against the FIA, F1 and Ecclestone over the cont🔯roversial 20ౠ08 Singapore Grand Prix.

Crashgate was when Nelson Piquet Jr crashed on purpose to help Fernando Alonso, forcing race-leader Massa into a pitstop and eventually costing him th𓃲e chance to win the title which Lewis Hamilton claimed.

“If he had asked me, I would have said it was the complete right thing to do, to sue, and to let an English judge decide what is right a𒅌nd wrong,” Ecclestone told the British Press Association.

“I cannot say anything about the outcome aဣnd what will ꧋happen.

“From his point of view, it is better that an English judge comes up with a verdict. It will be of mor💝e help for him.”

Ex-F1 driver Massa is seeking at le🐎ast $82m in damages.

Massa’s legal bid was expected after he requested comment from governing bodies in🔴to the incident.

“I always said I was going to fight until the end,” Mas🐟sa said.

“Since the FIA and FOM decided not to do anything, we wil✨l seek to right this historical injustice i🎉n court.

“The matter is now for our lawyers and they are fully authorised to do♈ whatever is necessaﷺry so justice in sport is served.”

Ecclestone admitted in an interview with F1-Insider that, in 2008, he became aware that Piq🔜uet Jr crashed on purp♚ose, but he chose not to investigate until it was too late to overturn the championship standings.

Crashgate became a public controversy in 2009.

Massa ha😼s accused the FIA of “a most serious for🀅m of wrongdoing”.

Massa’s filings also demand “a declaration that the FIA acted in breach of its own regulations 🎐in failing to investigate the circumstances of the♏ crash promptly in 2008”.

He also wants “a declaration that if the FIA had not acted in breach of its own regulations, it would h༒ave cancelled or ad🐈justed the results of the Singapore Grand Prix with the consequence that Mr Massa would have won the drivers’ championship in 2008”.

It is added: “The defendants’ actions caused significa🅠nt 𓆏financial loss to the claimant.”