Overview
- Lewis Hamilton said he is not following the case and has no view on it, stressing it has nothing to do with him.
- Mr Justice Robert Jay reserved judgment after a three-day preliminary hearing at London’s Royal Courts of Justice.
- Felipe Massa is suing Bernie Ecclestone, the FIA and Formula One Management for about £64 million and an apology over alleged failures linked to the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix.
- Massa’s legal team argues there was a conspiracy to keep quiet during 2008 that Nelson Piquet Jr’s Singapore crash was deliberate and affected the championship fight.
- Lawyers for Ecclestone, the FIA and F1 say the claim is statute-barred and question the weight of a 2023 interview attributed to Ecclestone that he now disputes.