LONDON (AP) — Felipe Massa’s 64 million pounds ($83 million) claim against Formula 1, its governing body the FIA and Bernie Ecclestone can go to trial, a High Court judge ruled on Thursday.

Lewis Hamilton’s first F1 world championship in 2008 is the subject of legal action, with Brazilian driver Massa saying he is the rightful winner of the title.

Massa lost by a single point after Nelson Piquet Jr. supposedly deliberately crashed at the Singapore Grand Prix.

Ecclestone, who was the boss of F1 for four decades before he was deposed in 2017, suggested in 2023 that series executives were aware of the cover-up before the 2008 campaign concluded.

Ecclestone, the FIA and Formula One Management are defending the claims.

Last month, they asked the court in London to throw out the case, sayin

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