Massa’s legal team extends FIA and F1 response deadline on 2008 challenge

Massa believes he was the victim of a conspiracy to cover up the 2008 Singapore GP Crashgate scandal in which Renault’s Nelson Piquet Jr crashed on purpose to let team-mate Fernando Alonso win.

If the race result had been thrown out at the time, Massa would have claimed the drivers’ championship instead of losing it to McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton by one point.

Massa has assembled a comprehensive legal team that alleged the Brazilian suffered “tens…