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Jonathan Noble

Why Massa's legal team believes it can "bring the trophy home"

Although the circumstances surrounding the Crashgate controversy at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix had been consigned to F1's history books by many, it has become a hot topic again.

An interview Bernie Ecclestone conducted earlier this year suggesting that knowledge of Nelson Piquet Jr's deliberate crash was known early enough for the FIA and FOM to take action before the 2008 title was decided – something he suggested it chose not to do to avoid a 'huge scandal' – prompted Massa to suspect there was more to the case than initially suspected at the time.

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