F1 | Todt returns to Singapore 2008: "The FIA ​​should have canceled that race"

GP Singapore 2008 – The controversies regarding the Singapore Grand Prix 2008 and crash gate articulated by Renault to allow Alonso to win that race and, consequently, destroy his title hopes with hindsight Philip Massa. The former pilot of Ferrari he deployed a series of lawyers to ask for the cancellation of that Grand Prix so he could define himself as champion of that season, and Jean Todt, former president of the FIA ​​but also team principal of the Red, interviewed by L'Equipe, returns to that event, saying how the Federation should have canceled the Asian race because it was manipulated.

“It's a special case – says Todt. It was proven that there was cheating, but we discovered it too late. The FIA ​​rule has always said that the results must be ratified by December 31st, and that there will never be any turning back. In the case of Singapore, the facts were revealed only a year later, and the sanctions imposed by the Federation before my arrival were annulled by the Paris court."

Mosley and Whiting knew

“According to what Bernie Ecclestone said, Max Mosley, my predecessor, and Charlie Whiting, the Formula 1 race director, knew everything from the beginning, but when I was president I wasn't informed about these details. Finding out that the Federation knew the truth before that famous December 31st could have changed things, but it's something we won't be able to discover, because Charlie and Max are dead. In retrospect, we should have asked for the race to be canceled, because we have a new fact, and if it were true, it means that the regulatory body that made the championship official knew what had happened."