Felipe Massa, the Brazilian racing driver, believes he lost the Formula 1 championship unfairly, and now he plans to ask a British court to have the result overturned.
The twist is that the title he is seeking is from 2008.
Massa lost the championship that year by a single point, but a scandal about a possibly deliberate crash in one race and revelations that have come in the ensuing years have prompted him to seek a reversal.
“I am the champion, and I feel that.”But many in the sport are uncomfortable re-examining such an old case.
“If everybody were to open up situations, then the sport would be in disarray,” Toto Wolff, the current head of the Mercedes team, told reporters over the weekend.
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Felipe Massa, Massa, “, ”, ” Toto Wolff
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Associated Press, Mercedes
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