Massa wants Lewis stripped of the 2008 title

Apparently Felipe Massa wants the Singapore Grand Prix wiped from the record books because of the Renault crashgate scandal.

I can understand that, Lewis would lose his points from that race and Massa would be crown World Champion.

It's not as simple as that, you would have to at the impact of that changed result on the rest of the races. Or imagine that the Singapore race had not taken place at all.

Without the points Lewis Hamilton took at Singapore, would he have driven differently in the remaining races. I think so. For a start he wouldn't have driven for a 5th place in Brazil.

In that Singapore race, Massa and his pit crew screwed up (with Massa setting off with the fuel hose still attached). That was the reason that he didn't win that race, otherwise he could still could have done it. In the following races, their pit lights gantry was removed. If that race hadn't taken place, would the pit cock-up have happened later, possibly at Brazil?

We just don't know. The fact is that the race was held, and Alonso won it albeit by circumstances contrived by his team-mate. But he drove magnificently that day, and should not be stripped of the win. And so, Lewis Hamilton should not be stripped of his World Championship.

Squiffy.