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Todt agrees with Massa demand in 2008 title legal battle

Article To news overview © xpb.cc Ex-Ferrari Team Principal Jean Todt has agreed with Felipe Massa's viewpoint that the controversial 2008 Singapore Grand Prix should have been "cancelled" and expunged from the record books. Comments made earlier this year from then-F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone suggested that he, then-FIA President Max Mosley and late FIA race director Charlie Whiting were aware during the 2008 season that Nelson Piquet Jr crashed deliberately in Singapore to manipulate the race in Renault's favour. Ecclestone claimed this was so to protect F1's image, with Massa suffering from a botched pit-stop under the resulting Safety Car at Marina Bay, when he drove off...
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