Carlos Sainz says "unacceptable” pre-race oil spill caused start chaos at F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix

A cl✅assic car that was meant to drive Lewis Hamilton around for the customary pre-race parade lap broke do🥀wn and leaked oil all over the left-hand 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 spillage.⛦
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 ꦕused to do the drivers parade, which is another thing for the FIA to look at, because it is not fair tha🔯t 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 leaking oil into the track one 𒁏hour before the race – it’♍s unacceptable.
“That probably caused a lot of the crashes into Turn ⛎1.”

Race-winner Ma🐽x Verstappen admౠitted the oil spill was “not ideal”.
“It was🐼 a class🌄ic 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 that happens. I had to steer bit left of it at the&nbsꦍp;start.”
Pierre Gasly, who started a season’👍s best fourth for Alpine, believes it created unfair🅺 conditions at the start of the race.
”It wasn't nice, especially 🦋lining up on the best spot of the year for us,” said the Frenchmen, who ultimately finished 11th.
"I'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.”
Mercede♌s’ George Russell, who started alongside Gasly 🐈in third, said: “It's not the first time we've seen these historical cars dropping oil.
"It was pretty shocking to see how bad it was. But the🎃y did a good job to clear it up for the race."

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