The Formula 1 drivers who were eliminated in ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚthe Safety Car restart pile-up that triggered the first red flag in the Tuscan Grand Prix have had their say on the incident.

F1’s first-ever race to be held at Mugello proved 🐎to be a c🍬haotic and incident-packed affair, with the 59-lap race interrupted by two suspension periods.

Six drivers were forced into retirement before a full lap of racing had been completed, with Max Verไstappen and Pierre Gasly ending their races in the Turn 4 gravel which resulted in an immediate Safety Car.

The inaugural Tuscan Grand ꧙Prix had to be halted altogether when a number of cars in the middle of the pack coll🤡ided on the main straight as the field bunched up to restart.

Kevin Magnussenﷺ was hit from behind by Alfa Romeo’s Antonio Giovinazzi as the Haas driver braked to avoid slowing cars had, which caused a domino effect that saw McLaren’s Carlos Sainz and Nicholas 🤪Latifi all get caught up in the melee.

Sainz, who was unscathed aside from a sore hand that he was seen nursing as he walked away from the scene of the acc🌱ident, described the incident as “prop💮erly scary”.

“[It was] properly scary,” he explained. “We’re doing 290, 30💖0 kph at that point, because everyone in 𝓀front of me just thought that we were racing.

“Suddenly it looks like we were not racing any♓more and everyone started br💛aking again.

“By the time I saw everyꦑthing it was just too late and it was a big crash. The ma꧃in thing is we are all OK now.”

Giovinazzi has called for F1 to review its restart procedu🐠re and believes there are improvements to be made i༒n order to avoid a repeat in future.

“People behind were pushing alread🌳y,” he saඣid. “The last thing that I saw was Magnussen completely stopped in front of me.

“I tried to avoid him but he was just there and I was alrea𒁃dy flat out. So it was just a really dangerous manoeuvre.

“I’m really frustrated especially because after lap one I was up to 14th and after that everything could happen. Just really d♌angerous things. We need to check what we can change of this.”

Magnussen, who has been summoned to see the stewards alongside Latifi, said he was unsure who wasꦛ to blame for the accident.

"I haven't watched it fro💛m all the cars ahead," the Dane said.

"I think my feeling is that somebody mayb🐎e backed off to try to go and then gain momentum.

"I don't know for sure, but suddenly the guys in front of me, th𝕴e couple of cars ahead, they went and we were full throttle for at least a couple of seconds. Then they stopped, I had to stop and the cars behind me had to stop.

"Eventually somebody couldn't react and there was a crash. It is something ⭕we want to avoid in the future."

Magnussen's teammate Grosjean was left fum🐓ing over team radio, saying: "That was fucking stupid from whoever was at the front. They want to kill us or what? This is the worst t🃏hing I have ever seen."

Latifi revealed that he almost hit Magnussen at the final corner and insisted he wa💖s ultimately helpless to avoid the crash along the start-finish straight.

“On this track with the finishing line being so late it was🌱 quite clear, I think, that the leader was always going to try and g🏅o as late as possible, just to avoid the slipstream effect,” he said.

“In the midfield to the back of the pack the concertina effect always makes it a ♌bit more diffic༺ult to judge.

“From already the little straight going into the last corner it seemed like at least the cars around me everyone was pushing flat out at the restart. So obviousꦐly I went.

“But I almost hit t꧅he back of Kevin already at the apex of the last corner, I had a really close miss ther🍬e. And then we bunched up again and then it seemed like everyone went again.

“So when you’re that far back a🌳nd just reacting to the cars around, in my experience when that happens as happened in Formula 2 in Baku most noticeably, if the leader doesn’t keep a consistent pace – I’m not sure if that’s the case, obviously, I can’t see – it just amplifies the effect.

“So I really couldn’t do anything to avoid that. It🤪 was a shame.”

Valtteri Bottas, who was leading the race at the time, rejected that he had played any rಞole in caus💃ing the crash, adding the drivers who were taken out only had themselves to blame.

“We’re allowed to race from🉐 the control line, which has been 𒁏there for a while I think,” Bottas explained.

“It’s just the decis🌌ion this year has been💮 that [on] the Safety Car they are putting the lights off quite late so you can only build the gap pretty late on.

“Of course w⭕hen you’re at the lead you try to maximise your chances. I’m not ℱat all to blame for that. Everyone can look everything they want for it.

“I was doing consistent speeꦿd until I went. Yes, I went late, but we start racing from the control line, not before that.

“So the guys behind who crashed because for that, they can ♔look in the mirror, there’🃏s no point whining about it.”

Daniil Kvyat, who finished seventh for AlphaTauri, has also be☂en summoned to the stewards to explain his parꦺt in the incident.