[parishilton]

Something that people often forget about F1 is this: if every car was equal and every driver as good as the rest, the grid would still constant of 20-odd places; there would still be someone who comes 1st, 2nd, 3rd and so on. Unless they stack the cars 10 high (a la Parisian parking), there's physically no way that they can get 3 or more cars crossing the line at the same time. Thus whoever comes first, deserves to be so - for whatever reasons (driver error, mechanical failure, nekkid bewbs on the trackside), the others don't and that's all there is to it. Hamilton may well have the best car on the track, along with Alonso, but he didn't stick it in the wall; he didn't charge out of the pits under a red light; he didn't go banana-bouncing across every corner.

Of course, this isn't to justify the near-hysterical reporting of ITV on Lewis - you'd think he was the Second Coming by some of their comments. I can only hope in rains like mad at Silverstone just so they can request Hamilton to walk on water...