A classic car that was meant to drive Lewis Hamilton around for the customary pre-race parade lap broke down and leaked oil all over the left-handꦑ side of the grid around an hour and a half before the start. 

Following a clear-up effort, large patches of cement dust were left covering the track to soak up the spil🍰lage.ꦐ 

And Sainz reckons the dirty track played a ꦿrole in the chaotic scenes at the start as both he and Fernando Alonso suffered spins at Turn 1. 

“I saw a lot of oil from the cars that we used to do the drivers parade🥂, which is another thing for the FIA to look at, because it is not fa𝓰ir that all the oil was on the inside line,” the Ferrari driver said. 

“Apart from the dirty track already being there, on top of that, we put cars that are leaki♋ng oil into the track one hour before the rac🦂e – it’s unacceptable. 

“That probably caused a lot of the 🦩crashes into Tur🐟n 1.”

Race-winner Max Verstappen admitted the🔜 oil spill was “not ideal”. 

“Iℱt was a classic cars, from the driver’s parade,” the Dutchman added. 

“So that’s maybe something that we have to look into because it’s a bit of a shame thaꦦꦚt happens. I had to steer bit left of it at the start.”

Pierre Gasly, who started a season’s best fourth for Alpine, believes it created unfair conditions at the start of th🀅e race.&nb💝sp;

”It wasn't nice, especially lining up on the best spot of the year for us,” said the Frenchmen, w🌟ho ultimately f⛦inished 11th. 

"ဣI've discussed it already with FIA, and I'm sure we'll change a few things, because it doesn't feel really fair that some guy's got to start on oil and some others have clear Tarmac. I'm sure they'll fix it.”

Mercedes’ George Russell, who started alongside Gasly in third, said: “It's🦩 not the first time we've seen these historical ca﷽rs dropping oil.

"It was pretty shocking to see how bad it was. But they did a good job to clear it up fo𝓡r the race."