There were 3 reasonable and regs complaint options for the Race Director to choose from yesterday:

1. Finish the race behind the safety car as there was no time for all cars to un-lap themselves before the finish.

2. Restart the race for one final lap with no cars un-lapped.

3. Red flag the race and have a 5 lap shoot-out with all cars on fresh tyres.

Instead Masi chose an unreasonable, regs non-compliant, hybrid option that almost guaranteed a Verstappen win. A farce. A mess. Another own goal for the FIA and the whole amoral rich-boys circus.

But it will be almost impossible to alter and unravel the outcome now at CAS - best for Hamilton and Mercedes to drop the legal challenge and get even on the track next year.