I'd say in certain circumstances, letting them change tyres as a precaution is needed, but only to the same compound. That way earlier in the race they're still going to need to change compounds during the race. Last thing we want is a puncture leading to a big crash because they chose track position having run through a debris field.

Seeing the replays and seeing the metal shards go everywhere it was understandable, they just restarted the race the wrong way.

First red could have been done under SC easy.

Yeah, shitshow is the right word. From the first red-flag to the last restart. Never since 2005 left me feeling so shitty after watching a race as this one. So much frustration, what a way to ruin a perfectly good grand prix.

Never stopped watching a race, and for this one, I did with great pleasure. Just after that first red-flag restart, when I saw everyone on hard tyres. Came back just to see the SC being called for a wheel on the track. The shitshow started again.

So the start to McLaren's year has been disastrous. And after three races they are 5th in the constructors. I'd argue Alpine's start has been even worse considering all the talk they were doing in the off season.

You can't really use constructors points after 3 races to establish a pecking order in a midfield this tight. Mclaren has been shit but got extremely lucky this race, Alpine has been surprisingly strong but a mixture of unlucky and incompetent.

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Team members can't climb the fence at the end of the race, but supporters can

I forget if it was Ted or Karun who explained this, but they can't even do that because, in the event of a late race red flag when the teams have run through their strategy, they just won't have a set of whatever compound they need to change onto left, unless it's a really worn set from practice or qualy which also has its own safety implications

Since it's a safety ruling to allow teams to deal with tyres that may have trawled through the accident and picked up debris, it's not going to change because safety comes first, no matter how it fucks up the "show"
And short of the race director coming down and visually inspecting each set of tyres to decide if they can be changed or not due to debris, I really don't know what can be done
It's a quirk of the rules for when Red Flags were only used once every season or less when there was a genuine, track blocking accident with Debris all over the track like Hockenheim 2001, but still applies in this era of Red flags for an ant sneeze on track or whatever.

My question is, why does the FIA think they need rules to solve this problem? In every other series if you catch debris from an accident in front and it damages your car or tyres, that's just bad luck and you need to make a call to pit and avoid an unsafe situation. Why do major rules with major flaws need to be invented to make teams do something that should be left to their best judgement?

IMO a number of yesterday's issues can be traced back to flawed rules invented to solve problems that maybe didn't need solving. Now watch the FIA invent a new set of flawed rules in reaction to this race.

It is so simple! You change the car, you go to the back. Free tyre changes are the worst. Got damage? Work on the car for as long you need, but you start from the back.
Red flag should have parc ferme rules, with the exception of cooling the car, umbrella if it rains and support of the driver.