Looks like it was pulled down Do you remember who it was by?

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Apparently Red Bull have paid the whistle blower a million euros as part of her severence package

Which is another bad look on top of all the other bad looks.

If she was in the wrong and had made it all up, why reward her for a million euro for her dupliciticiousness?

Apparently Red Bull have paid the whistle blower a million euros as part of her severence package

Which is another bad look on top of all the other bad looks.

If she was in the wrong and had made it all up, why reward her for a million euro for her dupliciticiousness?

Looks like Marko's job at Red Bull is safe (for now).

Whelp, guess that's it then. Been a helluva two/three weeks or so at least.

Just have to hope for enough Alpine yakety sax to allow them to get bought out by Andretti, otherwise this season will descend into the snooze fest we all figured it would be after testing.

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‘Don’t be Horny, Be a Christian’

Massa believes that if the crash was properly scrutinised, he would have been crowned the 2008 champion over Hamilton, who won the title by a point.

A statement from Massa’s legal representatives said: “Mr Massa is seeking declarations that the FIA breached its regulations by failing to promptly investigate Nelson Piquet Junior’s crash at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, and that had it acted properly, Mr Massa would have won the Drivers’ Championship that year.

“Mr Massa also seeks damages for the significant financial loss he has suffered due to the FIA’s failure, in which Mr Ecclestone and FOM were also complicit.

“As Mr Ecclestone has admitted there was ‘enough information in time to investigate the matter’ in 2008 and ‘cancel the race in Singapore’.

“Mr Ecclestone further affirmed that, had the results of the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix been cancelled, ‘Felipe Massa would have become world champion’ and that Mr Massa ‘was cheated out of the title he deserved’.

“Attempts to find an amicable resolution have been unsuccessful, leaving Mr Massa with no choice but to initiate legal proceedings"

Felipe Massa, instead of getting the 2008 WDC result over-turned, is now suing the FIA for $120m

You know what, I'll cop a lot of shit for saying this, I'll probably be in the minority, but good on him. Hit them where it hurts, their wallets. If Bernie was complicit in it, I'm all for it. Talk about the bad pit stop, or what could have been all you like, I'm glad he's suing.

I'm not linking the Murdoch article I found it in, but here's quotes

I don't know what he means "if the crash was properly scrutinised he would be the 2008 champion"

Does he mean the FIA was expected to know INSTANTLY it was a fake crash? It was obviously a duplicitous thing Renault did, but it only came out when Piquet started running his mouth off about it, until then (apparently about 2 months later for Bernie/Max, about a year later for everyone else, when Renault were about to fire Nelson)
No-one looked at it during the race and went "Ha, he did that on purpose"

(What I also think is odd and pretty funny about it is, didn't he have an identical crash the year later in practice in the same place? Did he ever speak about the irony of actually crashing the car in a place where he'd deliberately crashed the car the year before? Or did he even deliberately crash the car there again to remove suspicion and just be all "SEE!? IT IS a tricky corner, anyone saying I'm good at driving this corner is LYING" )

Anyway, the only true result of this is Massa winning and the FIA putting the only penalty on that race they can, retroactive DSQ to Alonso and everyone moves up in the finishing order 1 place, making Hamilton even MORE of a champion

Congrats spending all that money and all that festering resentment to actually have more of a points gulf between you and Lewis in the 2008 title results!

Now start dwelling on the accidents you had in Melbourne, Sepang, Silverstone (5x) and Fuji and how they are the real things costing you the title, all at your own hand

I don't know what he means "if the crash was properly scrutinised he would be the 2008 champion"

Does he mean the FIA was expected to know INSTANTLY it was a fake crash?

but it only came out when Piquet started running his mouth off about it,

retroactive DSQ to Alonso and everyone moves up in the finishing order 1 place, making Hamilton even MORE of a champion

Why should the race be nullified? The competitor that cheated should have be excluded. You want to nullify a complete race because a competitor cheated? Exclusion for the cheating competitor is all that is required. And as pointed out, Hamilton would have won the championship by more points if that was the case. It is a case of selective reasoning by Massa.