Felipe Massa ’s legal case over the 2008 Formula 1 Crashgate scandal begins on Wednesday at the High Court in London

Ex-F1 driver Massa is seeking £60m in damages from F1, the FIA and Ecclestone over an alleged cover-up of the scandal at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, when Nelson Piquet Jnr crashed deliberately under instruction from his Renault team.

The subsequent impact of the crash, Massa argues, cost him the 2008 F1 world championship, which Lewis Hamilton claimed on the final lap of the final race in Brazil , with Ferrari star Massa missing out by one point.

Having filed suit in London’s High Court last March, the case will begin on Wednesday. Massa will be represented by Nick de Marco KC. Yet Ecclestone, who was the F1 boss at the time, has disregarded Massa’s claim out of h

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