F1 race finish rules are “fine as they are” despite Melbourne chaos

The Melbourne race was red-flagged for a third and final time on lap 57 of 58 after a chaotic restart, which prompted a 30-minute delay to work out how the event would finish.

With just one lap remaining, the safety car led out the surviving cars across the line in order of the previous restart, which gave the race an anticlimactic end and was a blow to the drivers that were eliminated.

Alpine’s Pierre Gasly was one of the drivers who crashed out on the final…