AS we all know, Max Verstappen won the Formula One world championship last weekend. But as we also know, he didn't. No really. I haven't been a Lewis Hamilton fan for some time now. He seems to get all his views from the far Left-wing outer reaches of social media and somehow isn't able to see that all the woke stuff about environmentalism flies in the face of what he does for a living.
Instead of moaning, Lewis Hamilton simply smiled and congratulated Max Verstappen This is a man who'd drive a tank into battle while wearing a peace symbol on his helmet. And yet, my views completely changed after that heart-stopping final race because, my God, he was dignified. He must have been seething inside, and sad to the point of despair. But instead of moaning, he simply smiled and congratulated Max Verstappen. He got his knighthood this week. And for that post-race interview alone, he deserved it. The officials that run Formula One, however. That's a different story. Because what they deserve is a smacked bottom. In my view, sport is at its most pure when there are almost no rules at all. The 100 metre sprint is a classic example of this. Tennis isn't bad either and although the governing body sometimes seems to struggle with what is and what isn't handball, football is fairly pure as well. Formula One motor racing, however, has more laws than the EU. The rulebook for what can and what cannot be fitted to the cars is thicker than the Beijing phone book. And that's before we get to the rules on racing and the problems they caused in the closing stages of last weekend's race in Abu Dhabi. Heat of the moment As soon as we are told that the safety car in lap is covered by article 48.12 of the regulations, we know something is wrong. Especially when we then find out that in certain circumstances, article 48.13 contradicts article 48.12. And that article 15.3 gives the race director carte blanche to do with the safety car whatever he sees fit. Who can possibly have all these regulations in their head? And who, on the last lap of the last race of the year, when the two leading drivers have an identical number of points and there are millions of people watching on TV, can possibly be expected to make a calm and sensible decision. 
Lewis Hamilton got his knighthood this week \- and for that post-race interview alone, he deserved it. It'd be like releasing a tiger into a televised court room and then giving the jury two seconds to decide if the defendant is guilty or not. Should race boss Michael Masi have red-flagged the race after the Williams crashed? Yes, probably. We'd have got a five-lap do-or-die race between Max and Lewis, both of whom would have been on fresh tyres. And that would have been fair. But he had seconds to make a decision and he had to think, "Am I allowed by the rules to red-flag this? What does article 516.34 say? Or article 1,000,989,976.36.789?" All year, we've seen stewards making contradictory decisions in the heat of the moment. And they're usually decisions which ruin the race. In Abu Dhabi, they were still at it, deciding not to penalise Lewis, who'd retaken the lead on the first lap by not bothering to go round one of the corners at all.And there's only one solution to all of this. Trim the racing rule book right back so that it's nothing more than a pamphlet. And get rid of the stewards altogether. We just need a ref in a gantry over the start/ finish straight, with a yellow card in one pocket and a red in the other. And maybe a sign like you get at a kart track saying, "No bumping". Trans rules potty WHEN JK Rowling looks at the issue of transgenderism – which she has been tweeting about again – I guess she is as bewildered as I am when I try to read a Harry Potter book. 
JK Rowling has been tweeting her views on transgenderism again I just sit there saying: "This doesn't make any bloody sense." The latest thinking from the wide-awake Police McScotland is that someone who identifies as female must be treated as a woman, even if she has a penis which she's just used in a rape. Right. I see. And then what? She is sent to a women's prison? Honestly, it's harder to understand than the rules of quidditch. Time to bag a badger THE RSPB has spent £9.1million trying to kill every single mouse on a remote British island in the South Atlantic. 
Badgers are giving thousnads of cows in this country TB Apparently, they have been eating the eggs of a rare albatross and unless they're all killed, the big droopy bird with its sad face will become extinct. Right. Fine. But badgers are giving thousands of cows in this country TB and are farmers allowed to go out at night with machine guns and hand grenades? No, we are not. Even though a quarter of the world's badgers live in the UK and overcrowding is now so acute that some are to be found wandering the streets in a vest with a can of Stella, we still have to go out of our way to be nice to them. Weird. Wrong footed SO, you can now spend £30,000 on a pair of training shoes that don't even exist. They have been created digitally by a British-based tech company – now owned by Nike – and you can use them to create a digital 3D image of how you'd like to look in the social media metaverse. I literally have no idea what I'm on about here. Source:
