In the 2008 F1 title decider, race winner Massa crossed the line as world champion for Ferrari but Lewis Hamilton subsequently passed Glock – who was struggling for grip on dry tyres on a wet track – for the fifth place he needed to take the title away.
Since that incident, Glock was blamed in some quarters for his part in the outcome. The pair only spoke of what happened 13 years later in a piece on Sky Sports F1, where Massa said he never thought for a moment that Glock had done anything intentionally to influence the outcome against him.
This was underlined as they watched an onboard video of how much Glock was struggling to keep his car on the track, while Timo revealed that the podium ceremony preparations had effectively closed the pit lane and he’d been told to stay out.
Massa had never seen the onboard footage before, and Glock said he was completely unaware that’d he’d decided the outcome of the championship but that “there are still people out there who…
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