that record eight formula one drivers title but five laps to go and joe mentioned it in his piece there, something which would have seemed to most to be completely inconsequential on the battle between those two. the canadian driver crashed and brought out the safety car and without the safety car, the field will bunch. the thing was between lewis hamilton leading the race at that point and max verstappen, there were a number of cars who had been lapped. the stewards decided at that point they wanted to keep those lap cars between. —— in between max verstappen and hamilton. but then, they reversed that decision and this is the element of controversy which is the element of controversy which is being debated by the fans of lewis hamilton and the mercedes team. they reversed the decision allowing max verstappen to be bunched up right behind lewis hamilton as the safety car left the track, which was one lap to go. and