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This was a display of incredible incompetence by both the race organisers and race control.
The race had a time certain finish scheduled at 3.48 which was 12 minutes before the telecast ended.From the time of the red flag they would have known they would not reach the minimum lap number if they stuck to that time.However someone made a decision that it was more important to have driver interviews in Parc Ferme than continuing the race for another 5 minutes which would have allowed it to reach the minimum lap count for half points.They could have continued it for 10 minutes and then cut to end of telecast.
I agree the Rogers protest was another nail in the coffin of TCR in Australia but the real villains are the people who decided meaningless interviews were more important than a valid race.
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