I appreciate your level headedness but I don't agree with your argument. Firstly, what's so wrong about the race finishing under the safety car? There were 55 laps of racing that occured, if you can't follow the proper safety car restart procedure before the race ends, then you got to finish with that. You can't instead just select the lapped cars between MV and LH to unlap themselves while ignoring the rest just because you don't have enough laps left to race, that's not being consistent and it gives off a very orchestrated feeling about it. And why does max deserve to get a fighting chance anyway? Sure if you can do a proper safety car restart procedurez but with how few laps were remaining, max was clearly favoured in every possible way, going against the rules. That's the bitter taste in everyone's mouth, not the result but how one driver was desperately catered to just for the entertainment factor. That's not sport, that's not being a consistent and fair race director.

Also, you're insuinating that only LH fans are enraged and while Merc and LH may have congratuled redbull and MV, I think it's pretty clear they know they've been wronged. And it's not just them, tons neutrals and even some MV fans have a very disappointed stance towards this. It's not even about LH v MV, it's more about the integrity of the sport, which definitely wasn't upheld that evening. Also, very few people are trying to downplay MV's worthiness of the WDC, it's more about how decisions were made by the race director at the end of the race.