The field completed the last lap behind the safety car. The third standing start of the day, with two laps of racing to come, then ended in carnage with a third red flag and positions reverting to the previous grid order because the first sector had not been completed. The second stoppage came with four laps to go when Kevin Magnussen's Haas hit the wall, with a tyre ripped off in the impact amid scattered debris. The race was halted early on when Alex Albon's Williams was stuck on a kerb, with gravel strewn across the track. But the race director has to make a decision and as far as safety is concerned the decision must be respected even if we don't like it," he said.
"Was it safe for the cars to go through the debris? It's not easy to judge.
In defence of race director Niels Wittich, safety always comes first.Īston Martin principal Mike Krack, whose Spanish driver Fernando Alonso finished third after the final red flag reset the field to grid positions at the last re-start, said it was easy to criticise from the outside. LONDON, April 4 (Reuters) - Formula One was accused of putting entertainment before sport in Sunday's crash-strewn and triple-stopped Australian Grand Prix but whether all those red flags needed to be thrown is a difficult debate.
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