{"id":290726,"date":"2023-09-16T01:39:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T01:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=290726"},"modified":"2023-09-16T01:39:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T01:39:49","slug":"toto-wolff-is-given-new-legal-hope-over-lewis-hamiltons-title-agony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/racing\/f1\/toto-wolff-is-given-new-legal-hope-over-lewis-hamiltons-title-agony\/","title":{"rendered":"Toto Wolff is given new legal hope over Lewis Hamilton&apos;s title agony"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Max Verstappen&#8217;s 2021 F1 title is at risk as Mercedes boss Toto Wolff is given new legal hope over Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s Abu Dhabi agony&#8230; after Felipe Massa opened legal proceedings over 2008 &#8216;Crashgate&#8217; scandal<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Verstappen beat Hamilton to the world title on the last lap of the 2021 season<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span>The call has arisen after\u00a0Felipe Massa opened legal proceedings over 2008 title<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Massa claims he was robbed of the title by the so-called \u2018Crashgate\u2019 scandal<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Toto Wolff has said there could yet be grounds for Mercedes to challenge Max Verstappen\u2019s controversial title win over Lewis Hamilton in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>That possibility has come to the fore after Felipe Massa opened legal proceedings over the 2008 world championship, which he claims he was robbed of by the so-called \u2018Crashgate\u2019 scandal in the inaugural Singapore Grand Prix here 15 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>London lawyers acting for Massa believe the result should be scrubbed because, as has long been established, Renault ordered Nelsinho Piquet to crash to bring out the safety car, changing the course of the race so team-mate Fernando Alonso could win.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, they point to apparent new evidence that F1 bosses and the governing FIA knew about the skulduggery and chose not to act until the next year.<\/p>\n<p>Wolff said: \u2018It is interesting to follow. It is not something that anybody saw coming because the rules are pretty clear in F1.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/15\/23\/75491999-12524217-image-m-40_1694815478898.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mercedes boss Toto Wolff (pictured) has said there could be grounds for Mercedes to challenge Max Verstappen&#8217;s controversial 2021 title win<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/15\/22\/75491041-12524217-image-a-5_1694813513330.jpg\" height=\"402\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mex Vertsappen (right) won the title on the last lap of the last race of the season, overtaking Lewis Hamilton (left)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/15\/23\/75491913-12524217-image-a-11_1694815303599.jpg\" height=\"432\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The call has arisen after Felipe Massa (right) opened legal proceedings over the 2008 title<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But it will set a precedent \u2014 whatever it is \u2014 and we\u2019re looking from the sidelines with curiosity.\u2019 If Massa gets his day in a London courtroom \u2014 a long shot \u2014 and wins, it would open a Pandora\u2019s box for global sport, including F1\u2019s 2021 finale.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Race director Michael Masi freelanced the safety-car rules and Verstappen, advantaged by fresh tyres, seized the chance to pass Hamilton on the last lap.<\/p>\n<p>The FIA later admitted \u2018human error\u2019 was to blame, but it was too late to overturn the result.<\/p>\n<p>On track yesterday, Carlos Sainz led the two Ferraris at the top. George Russell was third best for Mercedes, Fernando Alonso fourth for Aston Martin and Hamilton fifth. \u2018Ferrari are fast and we are way worse than we expected,\u2019 said Verstappen, who was seven-tenths back.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/formulaone\/article-12524217\/Max-Verstappen-2021-Formula-One-title-risk-Toto-Wolff-Lewis-Hamilton.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen&#8217;s 2021 F1 title is at risk as Mercedes boss Toto Wolff is given new legal hope over Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s Abu Dhabi agony&#8230; after Felipe Massa opened legal proceedings over 2008 &#8216;Crashgate&#8217; scandal Verstappen beat Hamilton to the world title on the last lap of the 2021 season The call has arisen after\u00a0Felipe Massa&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Toto Wolff is given new legal hope over Lewis Hamilton&amp;apos;s title agony - Tell My Sport<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/racing\/f1\/toto-wolff-is-given-new-legal-hope-over-lewis-hamiltons-title-agony\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Toto Wolff is given new legal hope over Lewis Hamilton&amp;apos;s title agony - Tell My Sport\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Max Verstappen&#8217;s 2021 F1 title is at risk as Mercedes boss Toto Wolff is given new legal hope over Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s Abu Dhabi agony&#8230; 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