A quirk of the pitlane apparently led to them not realising he'd passed the SC during his stop.

3 hours ago, Dobbo said:

Abu Dhabi 21 was fine to end under racing conditions given all the teams vouched for it. What was completely fabricated on the spot was to only let the cars between Lewis and Max unlap themselves and no one else.

And today was not necessarily an issue to finish behind the safety car, we've had races where that's happened since (Monza 2022 I believe) but to say the safety car was coming in then randomly change their mind is dodgy. I don't believe it was a technical issue at all, if anything it was probably Toto on the blower trying to protect George's P2.

That was my point. You can't complain about rules not being followed and then complain when they are.

You can suggest the rules need looking at though but that's a complaint about the rules themselves, not how they're interpreted.