If any
sport doesn't mind the odd spot of drama then it's formula 1
racing.
Sometimes you get the feeling that it even plays up the odd scandal or two just to make sure it has space on the back pages.
However even the FIA aren't headline hungry enough to deprive Kimi Raikkonen of the 2007 driver's championship win.
McLaren are contesting a decision not to punish the BMW Sauber and Williams teams after an allegation that there were fuel irregularities.
After a three-hour hearing, the race stewards chose to impose no penalty on either team, ensuring Raikkonen could celebrate the first F1 title of his career by finishing one point ahead of England's Lewis Hamilton and his McLaren team-mate Fernando Alonso.
Had the drivers in question (Nico Rosberg of Williams and BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld) been disqualified, Hamilton would have finished fourth, earning him enough points to become world champion.
Now Ron Dennis and Lewis Hamilton are hoping the FIA will find in their favour though the overwhelming consensus amongst those in the know is that the infringement is so minor its unlikely the decision of the stewards will be changed.
Millions across the world watched Raikkonen celebrate his amazing achievement and should those scenes ultimately be for nothing then formula 1 racing would become a laughing stock.
That's
something the FIA will ensure doesn't happen and so Lewis Hamilton
will have to settle for second this year.
By Graham Clifford
