Explained: Why wild F1 Australian GP ended the way it did

Red Bull’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen won the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:delayed, inci🐬dent-packed Melbourne race from Mercedes’ 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton and Aston Martin’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso.
The biggest talking point from the thrice red-flagged third round was the finish.After a lengthy delay due to multiple cars crashing out at the second standing restart, the race resumed with a processional fཧinal-lap run to the chequered flag behind the Safety Car with no overtaking allowed.
For several minutes there was confusion in the paddock because nobody knew what the FIA plann🅠ed to do.
F1's governing body the FIA eventuall👍y declared the positions were set “in the order of the previo🔜us start minus cars out”.
This was because the field had not passed ꧟the fi🐭rst sector line at the point at which the red flag came out.

It meant that despite being🅺 tagged into a spin and dropping down the order, Alonso was able to restart in third and seal the final spot on the podium.
The situation was simila♕r to last year’s British Grand Prix where the starting order was reset following a red flag on the opening lap.
“The drivers didn’t go through a single sector,” Sky Spo💫rts pundit and ex-F1 driver Karun Chandhok explained.
“When tha🃏t happens, they then go back a lap, because they haven’t got to a point where they🎉 can define the order. So the rules are to go back to the previous lap.
“The two Alpines could ♔not finish so t𒆙hey were taken out of the order so the other cars moved up.”
Fellow Sky Sports pundit Naomi Schiff added: “The top three drivers weren’t kꦿeen to restart, they sounded happy to restart under Safety Car conditions because they felt vulnerable.
“Others had something to gain. Others were more concerned by the drivers behind them undoing the good work t🉐hat they’d 🏅already done.”

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