If they had ended under the safety car, the other side would have said it was rigged; even more so since there was no call made to Lewis to give back the place from lap 1. Would seem like the officials were favoring Hamilton. Either way it would be controversial.
There will always be opposing views, but few can deny that Max was deserving of the championship. Lewis was deserving as well.
Hilarious public phone in on Radio 2 here in the UK, old lady moaning that the race was fixed because they'd already tried handicapping Hamilton with grid penalties and it didn't work. No dear, he got grid penalties for changing his bloody engine!
I was drawn back to visit the Planet F1 forum by the promise of debate around the final race, but they are so unbelievably pompous about it; I had forgotten how they have no sense of humour about anything and can't grasp the point that F1 IS a 'show' whether they like it or not and has been since TV starting paying lots of money to screen it and big companies started sponsoring it. They seem to think the pinnacle of entertainment is watching people driving around in circles slowly get further and further apart as the minute differences in the cars performance adds up. They also think anyone who doesn't watch the race with the timing screen on a laptop is a 'casual viewer' even if they've been watching for 30 or 40 years and utterly fail to see that the ludicrous amounts of money which are spent on building their carbon fibre dream machines actually comes from people like that, not the small minority of anoraks who can identify the difference between a Maclaren MP4/11 and an MP4/11B.
