A couple of days ago Chuck Windsor hit Hamo, who had his left knee resting awkwardly on the knighting stool, on the left and right shoulder with a big knighting sword and said (well something like): "Up you get Hamo, despite being dudded by the FIA, Betty, Camilla Shand, Bill, Meg, Ed and even Henry and me think you should be world champion rather than that nasty Dutch boy, so we are making you a knight."

Let's be clear. Last weekend's final and deciding race of the F1 season was a disgrace. Trying to justify a complete lack of professionalism and the continuing favouring of Mad Max Verstappen as just "a race" only demonstrates how far the sport's administrators, who are headquartered in the historic Hotel de Crillon, 8 Place de la Concorde, Paris, are removed from the 1.8 billion punters who watch the races and the $10bn industry that F1 is.

Just to recap: Hamo had basically led the race into lap 53 and was 11 seconds or a lifetime in front when Nick Latifi found the wall in his Williams. That meant a safety car came out and that's when everything went merde. Bottom line is, no one knew what was going on.

Race director Michael Masi first stopped lapped cars from passing the safety car, but then changed his mind. So, with one lap to go, that decision gave Mad Max (on new tyres) a clear track to take on Sir Hamo (on very old tyres).

Can I leave it to 11-year F1 veteran Johnny Herbert (and Times correspondent) to take it from here: "The FIA got it wrong and Lewis Hamilton was robbed of winning his eighth world championship title."

"In the past, when the safety car is going to come in, all the lapped cars have been allowed to pass, not just a couple. But it was wrong and unfair because Lewis did absolutely nothing wrong."

Was Hamilton robbed of the championship? "Yes. He was robbed of it."

After a very large outcry, FIA emperor Johnny Todt issued a decree from his winter palace at 8 Place de la Concorde saying: "Following the presentation of a report regarding the sequence of events that took place following the incident on lap 53 of the grand prix and in a constant drive for improvement, the FIA president proposed to the World Motor Sport Council that a detailed analysis and clarification exercise for the future with all relevant parties will now take place."

Eighteen readers, one family member, one friend we all know this trick! Yup it's the old one we used when I was in the union. Got a problem? There's two responses: the mirror and the vomit. The mirror is: "we'll look into it". The vomit is: "I'll bring it up with the union secretary". So Johnny Todt and the lads will look into it and have "a clarification exercise".

Toto Wolf and the gang at Mercedes should take the FIA to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.