Verstappen over 10 seconds behind, 5 laps to go.
Takes a pit stop, now he's even further behind.
One lap to go, officials make a decision that puts him level, no seconds behind,on fresh tyres.
That decision gifted the championship to Verstappen. The opposite decision would have gifted the championship to Hamilton.
The race and the whole championship became nothing to do with the drivers, and everything to do with the officials. That's the problem with F1.
The correct outcome? Who cares. But it would probably have been that the guy who was leading the race by a street, when the random crash happened, won the championship. Instead it was decided by can't lose decisions from Red Bull and some poor decisions by officials.
A real F1CK up.