Sorry Ron. How is it possible that we all forgot that it was his fastest sector time. Of course that means that he couldn't have driven it any faster. We apologize.
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It's just that the people in charge have realized the PR value of a coloured (call me racist, but I couldn't come up with a better politically correct adjective) British guy in a British car beating Ferrari as well as a double world champion and taking the trophy on his rookie year. Everything Hamilton does goes because it's good for the wallet of those people, the fact that it's not good for the sport means nothing here. Everybody sees what Hamilton and McLaren are doing but nothing can be done as the few ones with deciding power decide to close their eyes.
Remember when BAR had an underweight car a couple of years ago? The drivers had nothing to do with it, still they were banned from a few races. The explanation
"Hamilton knew nothing about the spying and thus must not be punished" seems a bit odd in that light. Remember when Schumacher parked his car in the last corner in Monaco? He got punished. Hamilton getting away with the yesterday incident seems again a bit odd in that light.
This is very clear. Ferrari won too much in the past years, they aren't allowed to do it now because it would make F1 look boring. So everything possible is done to ensure someone else takes the trophy. We've seen that it takes pretty ground breaking things to achieve - illegally (and it has been proved) got information, a few quite distinctive rule interpretation exceptions, fishy things even inside the McLaren team - but in the end the rich guys seem to get what they want.
