
MASSA: THE WAR FOR THE TRUTH
In this gripping, insider-voice retelling, Christian Horner walks listeners through one of Formula 1’s most explosive controversies: Felipe Massa’s battle to rewrite the legacy of the 2008 championship. Get Amazon Prime Today
Horner breaks down how a long-buried comment from Bernie Ecclestone reignited the Crashgate scandal, why Massa refused to let the past stay quiet, and how the FIA, the teams, and the sport’s powerbrokers scrambled to contain the fallout.
(0:20) Felipe Massa
(1:57) CrashGate (Named after the break in at the Watergate Hotel in Washington DC lead by President Nixon)
(2:50) Bernie Ecclestone
(5:00) The Lawyers were like Vultures(7:20) a quiet Dinner in Monaco(9:40) Morals
(11:20) The Crusader
Sharp, cinematic, and full of paddock-level insight, this is Horner’s take on a fight that pushed F1 to confront its own truth.
“Massa didn’t just challenge a result — he challenged the system.”
🎙️ PODCAST DISCLAIMER — ROTR Formula 1 Edition
Before we drop the visor and send it, a quick note from the pit wall:
This podcast uses artificial intelligence to help craft stories, commentary, and the occasional overly-dramatic retelling of Formula One chaos. The characters, dialogue, and events you hear may be fictionalized, embellished, or entirely invented for entertainment — a bit like a team radio message that’s been “creatively edited” for the broadcast.
Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead — drivers, team principals, mechanics, or that one guy in the paddock nobody can quite identify — is purely coincidental and the unintended result of the author’s imagination and AI’s over-enthusiasm.
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