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Ex-FIA president Jean Todt thinks F1 “could have been tougher” with how they handled the controversy around the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix.
Felipe Massa initiated a legal action to overturn the result of the 2008 championship, bringing back the events from 15 years ago to the forefront. He lost the championship by just one point to Lewis Hamilton, but believes that the race in Singapore cost him the title. In that race, Renault’s Nelson Piquet Jr. intentionally crashed to benefit his teammate Fernando Alonso, leading to a mistake at the pit stop for Massa. Massa believes that if Singapore wasn’t fixed, he would have won the championship. Jean Todt, who was the FIA president at the time, agrees that the Singapore Grand Prix was rigged and should have been canceled.
