How Long Is Too Long? Filipe Massa’s Legal Challenge for the 2008 F1 Championship

By now most race fans will have heard that Filipe Massa has assembled a bicontinental crack legal team intent on forcing the FIA and Formula 1 to revisit the 2008 Driver’s Championship to remove Lewis Hamilton’s name from the record books and replace it with his own. What has not been widely discussed however is why Massa is even allowed to bring this claim in the first place despite the sporting regulations having determined that the matter should to be closed, and approximately 15 years having passed by since the underlying issue took place. Let’s discuss.