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It was an engineered win, to boost ratings and supply content for the Netflix series " Drive to Survive". Not to mention placating the millions of Max fans in the Netherlands, who have been claiming F1 was a British series and stacked against him. Netflix pays the F1 owner a significant amount of money, beyond the usual television rights deals. F1 is a big business, and the owners expect a good return on their investment.
Lewis Hamilton has nothing left to prove in this area, and honestly I would completely understand if he just decided to walk away from F1. He is extremely wealthy now, and at 36 he has indicated more often recently that there are other things he would like to do in life. Why put up with contrived results?
There are, despite what some here may say, rules that have applied for many years, related to safety car procedures. As many of the drivers have observed, the rules were ignored to create an opportunity for Max. If the rules had been followed Lewis would have likely won. If Lewis was made aware of the intention to ignore safety car procedures, in this race, he most likely would have pitted to change to soft tyres. As I said, it was contrived.
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