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Honestly I'd have just called it how they were when they all got called in at the end but appreciate that's not follow the rules (but then when have they).
Alternatively most if not all of the cars were past the crash site by the time they threw the red so it wasn't an emergency, let the safety car pick them up then last lap behind that. Would have been a bit of a damp ending to the race but that's life, the farce they gave us was pathetic.
The Alonso/sainz thing was a head scratcher too - how can you punish one person for a collision that was essentially struck off by resetting Alonso? Doesn't make sense to me.
Referees/officials shouldn't be deciding wins & it happens all too often recently in F1.
Was a good race though & I did enjoy it so not complaining too heavily!
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Can't exactly ask all the cars to pull over and hold on while we check the replays like other sports though.
Definitely think the Alonso podium mess was 100% on the FIA, but this time around I'm struggling to think of a neater solution. As far as I can tell they followed precedent and I can't really understand what they've apparently did wrong. Though it did feel like they should've called the safety car as soon as Magnussen's tyre was sitting on track.
On a more positive note, big fan of the changes they've made to the circuit in recent years. Used to be a consistently dull race (not helped when it was the first race of the season either).