Ex-Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa's £64 million claim against F1, its governing body the FIA and Bernie Ecclestone can go to trial, a High Court judge has ruled.

Lewis Hamilton's first F1 world championship in 2008 is the subject of legal action, with Brazilian Massa saying he is the rightful winner of the title.

Massa lost by a single point after Nelson Piquet Jr deliberately crashed at the Singapore Grand Prix.

At the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, Renault staged a win for Fernando Alonso by ordering Nelson Piquet Jr to crash, which brought out a safety car and meant Massa, who was leading the race for Ferrari, finished in 13th after his strategy was compromised.

The following season, Piquet revealed he had been under instruction by his bosses to crash deliberately.

Massa's lawyers claim Mr Ecclestone knew the crash was deliberate and that he and the FIA failed to investigate it.

Mr Ecclestone, who was the boss of F1 for four decades before he was deposed in 2017, suggested in 2023 that the sport's executives were aware of the cover-up before the 2008 campaign concluded.

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