Overview
- The FIA, Formula One Management and Bernie Ecclestone must pay £250,000 to Felipe Massa within 14 days under the High Court order.
- Cases are stayed during the Supreme Court application, though the parties must exchange amended pleadings.
- A November ruling had already allowed Massa’s damages claim to proceed to trial while rejecting his bid for a declaration that he should be 2008 champion.
- Massa seeks roughly £64 million in damages and alleges senior figures knew of or concealed the manipulation of the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix.
- Renault’s orchestrated crash by Nelson Piquet Jr at Singapore triggered a safety car that hurt Massa’s race; he lost the 2008 title to Lewis Hamilton by one point.