Massa has highlighted his desire for to see \u201caccountability\u201d being taken<\/a> with an October 28 court date set.<\/p>\nHowever, Ecclestone stated there is no way for the race result to be altered.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no way in the world anyone could change or cancel that race,\u201d the 94-year-old told The Times.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is always something going on where someone would like to cancel it if they could.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo try to persuade the president of the FIA to call a special meeting where the FIA would have to cancel the race \u2014 there were no provisions for that to happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cMax knew there was not enough evidence at the time to do anything.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt only started later when young Nelson decided he wanted to say something when he found out he was not going to get a seat for the following year.<\/p>\n
\u201cMax was not saying we should cover this up but just that it was not good for the image of Formula 1.\u201d<\/p>\n
Addressing the interview he gave to F1 Insider in which he stated both he and the FIA discovered Renault’s plot during the 2008 campaign, Ecclestone does not believe it will stand as viable evidence in court.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was an interview I gave to someone in Germany,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the guy at the time, his English wasn\u2019t that good and he was taking notes, and it was picked up by someone in England.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe lawyers for myself, the FIA and F1 do not understand how it can be heard in a court.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone has played down the significance of Felipe Massa’s lawsuit, as the ex-driver seeks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-168515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}