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 driving for McLaren.
The addition of the ‘crashgate’ scandal has enabled Massa to seek to reverse results from 15 yea❀rs ago.
‘Crashgate’ saw Renault’s Nelson Piquet Jr intentionally crash at the Singapore Grand Prix, for which he was later punished. The knock-on effect was that Ferrari botched Massa’s pitstop, costing him points in the 📖title chase.
Bernie Ecclesto🦋ne, then-F1 supremo, has since cla🍎imed 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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 Miami Grand Prix, where he could awkwardly reunite with Hamilton.
“Bec𒁃ause everybody knows what's happened in the race, everything came out in 2009.
"We hear after that also that Charlie [Whiting] knew and Max [Mosley], so for me it's the injustice for the spღort.
“It s🌺hows that maybe every decision on the legal side, everything that happens, it was not correct on that situation.
“So I took th🔥e decision to study on the lega🌠l side everything that happened.
"I'm 🍌not doing this for money. I'm not doing thꩵis for anything.
“�🧔�Because it's not what I aim to, but I'm doing this for the justice.
“Not only for m🐠e, but 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 does for a coun🐲try? 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 gam🅺e. When you have a problem in the engine or when you have🔯 a mistake.
“You canno𒉰t really say 'I was wrong because my engine broke down' No. B⛎ut what happened on that race is a different situation.”
James wa⭕s a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a dec🅺ade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
