WATCH: Video of Felipe Massa spitting champaign at Lewis Hamilton’s face resurfaces amidst legal drama for 2008 title
And old video of Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa has resurfaced amid legal battle over 2008 World Championship title
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Formula 1 has been around for a long time, and its history has housed some massive controversies as well. Even today, drama amongst the F1 drivers is not completely unheard of, but just a decade ago, the competition was much fiercer and the relationship between the racers was quite toxic. This laid grounds for many controversial incidents that have gone down in the history of the sport. One such moment is Lewis Hamilton’s victory over Felipe Massa in the 2008 F1 World Championship, which earned the Briton his first ever World title.
Throughout the entire season, Lewis Hamilton was in a neck and neck competition with Massa, and he ultimately won over the Brazilian by a gap of only 1 point. Felipe Massa is still regarded as one of the greatest F1 racers who could never win a World Championship. But now, some shocking claims have come up which suggest the results should have gone way differently than how they turned out. It all started with the 2008 Singapore GP, where a clearly made-up scheme by Renault came into light as Nelson Piquet Jr. deliberately crashed into a wall to call for a safety car.
Piquet’s crash gave his teammate Fernando Alonso enough of a leeway as the Spaniard was targeting the Championship win that year. Ultimately, the plan was discovered by the authorities. Recently, former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone made a bombshell claim as he said he knew about Renault’s plan for the “crashgate”, and that there was a way to overturn the final results. Upon hearing this, Felipe Massa said he will look into his options for a legal recourse to challenge Lewis Hamilton’s 2008 F1 Championship title. And in the middle of this drama, an old video of Massa spitting champagne at Hamilton has come up on the internet.
Old video from Indianapolis 2007 indicates sour relationship between Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa
Even before Lewis Hamilton came for Felipe Massa’s 2008 F1 title, things were never too friendly between them. This has been suggested by an old video from Indianapolis 2007 that shows the Brazilian taking some champagne in his mouth and then spitting it out on Lewis Hamilton, who seems quite nonchalant with the whole display. This video has ignited massive outburst from fans of Hamilton, who think Massa was wrong in spitting at a fellow driver.
The timing of this video could not have been better as Felipe Massa is in the news nowadays for seemingly taking legal action against the decision to crown Lewis Hamilton as the 2008 F1 Champion. If he does go ahead with with the lawsuit, and if he wins, it will change the face of F1 history. Lewis will not longer equal Michael Schumacher’s count of seven World Championship victories and Felipe Massa will have his life’s first and only F1 title.
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