A traditional automobile that was meant to drive Lewis Hamilton round for the customary pre-race parade lap broke down and leaked oil all around the left-hand aspect of the grid round an hour and a half earlier than the beginning.
Following a clear-up effort, massive patches of cement mud had been left overlaying the observe to absorb the spillage.
And Sainz reckons the soiled observe performed a job within the chaotic scenes initially as each he and Fernando Alonso suffered spins at Flip 1.
“I noticed loads of oil from the vehicles that we used to do the drivers parade, which is one other factor for the FIA to take a look at, as a result of it’s not honest that each one the oil was on the within line,” the Ferrari driver mentioned.
“Other than the soiled observe already being there, on high of that, we put vehicles which might be leaking oil into the observe one hour earlier than the race – it’s unacceptable.
“That most likely prompted loads of the crashes into Flip 1.”
Race-winner Max Verstappen admitted the oil spill was “not superb”.
“It was a traditional vehicles, from the motive force’s parade,” the Dutchman added.
“In order that’s possibly one thing that we now have to look into as a result of it’s a little bit of a disgrace that occurs. I needed to steer bit left of it at the begin.”
Pierre Gasly, who began a season’s finest fourth for Alpine, believes it created unfair situations initially of the race.
”It wasn’t good, particularly lining up on one of the best spot of the 12 months for us,” mentioned the Frenchmen, who in the end completed eleventh.
“I’ve mentioned it already with FIA, and I am certain we’ll change a number of issues, as a result of it would not really feel actually honest that some man’s bought to start out on oil and a few others have clear Tarmac. I am certain they’re going to repair it.”
Mercedes’ George Russell, who began alongside Gasly in third, mentioned: “It isn’t the primary time we have seen these historic vehicles dropping oil.
“It was fairly surprising to see how dangerous it was. However they did a great job to clear it up for the race.”