Moderator's Report
Summary
Only one incident required moderating but it involved most of the field.
Lap 1 - Virage de la Gare
Potentially I could penalise several drivers for a variety of offences, but all of the incidents were to a large extent made far more likely by the unusual circumstances. With 2 drivers up the front who would normally be further back, the field got compressed at the hairpin, and a small tap from behind triggered a chain reaction that took out half the field.
Some drivers appear to show little care extracting themselves from the mess, but client replays show that they had a very different view of events, and are therefore absolved of blame.
Given the rather large element of doubt in all this, I propose to put the whole thing down to an unfortunate set if circumstances, and therefore I will not issue any penalties to individual drivers.
The only comment I would like to make is to ask all drivers to pause for a moment after a pile up occurs before trying to drive off. This should give the server and clients a chance to work out where everyone is and so avoid the problem of invisible cars approaching from behind, as happened in this case.