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Jean Todt backs Massa over ‘rigged' 2008 race

Dec.7 Jean Todt, the former Ferrari boss and ex-FIA president, has offered words of support for Felipe Massa's quest to be named the 2008 world champion. Few respected figures in Formula 1 have gotten behind Massa's threatened legal action, based on revelations about the infamous ‘crashgate' scandal of the 2008 Singapore GP. Frenchman Todt, now 77, had just stepped down as Ferrari boss when the scandal struck, and he was also yet to take office as the new FIA president. When asked about Massa's quest to be crowned 2008 world champion in Lewis Hamilton's place, Todt told La Stampa newspaper: 'I don't get into the controversy. 'But for him, psychologically, it was very hard. Maybe we...
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