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<\/p>\nThe barrister continued to say the defendants were trying to mischaracterise his client\u2019s case in order to argue he is out of time and of trying to reopen the results of the race. He argued that for the FIA now to say it has no responsibility to deliver sporting fairness is contradictory.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe FIA owed a duty and to other members to enforce its regulations,\u201d De Marco said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe FIA recognised that duty when they belatedly investigated the crash in 2009.\u201d De Marco added it had failed in its duties in 2008 when Nelson Piquet\u2019s father first approached the governing body saying the shunt may have been deliberate.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr Ecclestone\u2019s interview confirms this when he said the FIA had sufficient evidence to investigate the crash and should have done so then,\u201d De Marco continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe international sporting governing body whose whole purpose and reason it has powers is to protect the integrity of the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n
De Marco alleged that the September 2009 World Motor Sport Council report into Crashgate, signed by the then-FIA President, the late Max Mosley, was worded deliberately so as not to implicate those in charge of F1 (i.e. Mosley and Ecclestone) for not acting as soon as they were told of the scandal.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter the race, the sequence of events described above, giving rise to such an obvious benefit for Renault F1 and Mr Alonso, had raised suspicion and there was a degree of speculation that Mr Piquet Jnr\u2019s crash had been deliberate,\u201d the report read.<\/p>\n
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Massa\u2019s lawyer says the Crashgate report was deliberately worded so as not to implicate Mosley or Ecclestone in a conspiracy<\/p>\n
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\u201cRumours continued to circulate in the weeks that followed the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr Piquet Jr\u2019s father, Nelson Piquet Sr, indicated privately to an FIA official that the crash may have been deliberate, though at that time Mr Piquet Jnr was still under contract with Renault F1 and it was understood that he would not be prepared to make a statement to the FIA.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe FIA considered its position and concluded that it did not have sufficient evidence at that time to launch a detailed investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The barrister continued to say the defendants were trying to mischaracterise his client\u2019s case in order to argue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[5180,49,48,117330,578,3763,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-251352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-bernie-ecclestone","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crashgate","tag-f1","tag-felipe-massa","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}