Overview
- After a three-day preliminary hearing in London, Mr Justice Robert Jay reserved judgment on whether the case proceeds or is struck out.
- Massa is suing Bernie Ecclestone, Formula One Management and the FIA for about £64 million, arguing failures around the 2008 Singapore ‘Crashgate’ cost him the championship.
- His argument cites a 2023 interview attributed to Ecclestone suggesting prior knowledge of a deliberate crash and an alleged decision not to act, which Ecclestone says he does not recall giving.
- Defence submissions reject liability, contend the claim was filed too late, and say Massa’s and Ferrari’s own errors decided the 2008 outcome.
- Massa testified that Ferrari’s lawyers urged him in 2009 to retract comments about the crash, and said former team principal Jean Todt believed the accident was deliberate.