[Dean]

OMG... [RANT]

I do not claim to understand the FIA or how they run events, but they need to get their $%^& together!

Changing results after the podium ceremony for anything other than a post race inspection failure just makes them look like morons.

There has to be consistency! If that means having a standard set of stewards that go officiate every race, so be it. Maybe they have that, but it doesn't appear that way.

It is the officials responsibility to reset the order before restarting or concluding a race. If there was something still to be resolved after the checker, bring all cars to the pit lane until it is resolved and then roll the podium cars to "victory lane". Passing under a local yellow is one thing, a safety issue, and the driver's responsibility. Determining positions/running order behind the Safety Car is the Race officials! You can't penalize a driver for being in the wrong position unless he has refused to comply with your direction as to where he should be IMHO.

Back to a general rant at the FIA, they need to get control of "The World Feed". The production quality is all over the place depending on the race. I don't know how to fix it, but it needs to be taken care of. Australia was not bad, but it was not great either. I realize the speed guys can only talk about what the world feed has provided and don't blame them, but the feed itself is sad. Their ability to cover incidents or significant events and/or replay them in a timely manner is pitiful at times.[/rant]

Otherwise, it was a pretty interesting race. I wish I could get interested enough to participate in the Fantasy "team", but stuff like this just annoys me.

The mandatory two different tire rule still boggles my mind as well...