Felipe Massa will look into legal options over the 2008 F1 title outcome following fresh comments from Bernie Ecclestone that he and the FIA knew about the 'crashgate' scandal the very same year.
Those remarks have drawn interest from Massa, who says he wants to evaluate whether or not there are grounds now to take the matter further in legal channels.
“This is very sad, to know the result of this race was supposed to be cancelled and I would have a title. In the end, I was the one who lost the most with this result. So, we are going after it to understand all this.” Massa is clear though that his motivation to look once again into the matter is not being fuelled by the desire for financial compensation.
Massa said it was not uncommon for other sports to amend results many years after competitions when fresh evidence of cheating had emerged. Article 1.3.1b of the ISC states that competitors: “Shall undertake to submit themselves without reserve to the above and to the decisions of the sporting authority and to the consequences resulting therefrom.”