Australian Grand Prix officers have been summoned to a listening to at their very own race over the scary scenes the place spectators had been metres from catastrophe on Sunday.
The System 1 phrase was left rocked by imaginative and prescient displaying spectators had invaded the monitor whereas the race was nonetheless working in Melbourne.
The incident was investigated on the conclusion of the race and System 1’s international governing physique — the FIA — discovered race organisers had positioned followers in an “unsafe” setting.
One video on Twitter confirmed followers snuck by security limitations and onto the monitor close to the Pit Lane exit after Max Verstapeen had crossed the road to say victory within the chaotic race that was stopped with a pink flag on three events.
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Automobiles had been nonetheless concluding their calm down lap at excessive pace when video reveals followers had been simply metres from catastrophe.
Missed within the chaos on the finish of the race, FIA stewards red-flagged the race for a report fourth time.
The FIA introduced in its ruling that “a big group of spectators managed to interrupt the safety traces and accessed the monitor whereas the race was nonetheless ongoing”.
Essentially the most regarding incident confirmed followers had been in a position to attain Nico Hulkenberg’s stranded Haas automotive, which had been parked on the facet of the monitor after he crossed the road to complete seventh.
The stewards report mentioned Hulkenberg’s automotive nonetheless had its gentle flashing pink — an indication “the automotive was in an unsafe situation with potential electrical discharge”.
The report said: “All of this introduced vital hazard to the spectators; race officers and the drivers”.
The FIA has demanded an evidence from the Australian Grand Prix and the incident will now be additional investigated by the World Motor Sport Council.
The investigation will decide if any sanctions or penalties might be handed all the way down to the Australian Grand Prix.
Throughout a marathon stewards inquiry late on Sunday evening it was dominated the AGPC should “urgently current a proper remediation plan to the FIA”.
“The safety measures and the protocols which had been anticipated to be in place for the occasion weren’t enforced leading to an unsafe setting for spectators, drivers and race officers,” the FIA said.
It comes because the FIA continues to be criticised for its dealing with of the race with Max Verstappen amongst a bunch of drivers to slam the officers for red-flagging the race twice within the last three laps — as an alternative of bringing out a security automotive.
“I’m very glad to have gained, however the race in direction of the tip was a little bit of a large number,” he mentioned.
“I simply didn’t perceive why we wanted a pink flag. It left plenty of drivers confused. If we’d have had a security automotive after which a traditional rolling begin we wouldn’t have had all these shunts after which you may have a traditional end. In order that they created the issues themselves.
“We’ll discuss it, I feel it left plenty of drivers confused about why we wanted a pink flag. We’ll discuss in Baku.”
Solely 12 of the 20 vehicles had been in a position to end the race with 4 vehicles worn out within the last re-start.
