They actually followed the rules to a T. It was the announcers who kept throwing out all of this speculation on other ways the race could end. It’s the same rules that they followed at Silverstone last year, only that was at the beginning of the race. If a red flag comes out, before all cars have passed sector 1, the order reverts to the previous lap.
I just think for safety sake, they need to take a look at doing standing restarts after red flags. I know it’s not as exciting as the grid restart, but it seems a rolling restart, would cause a lot less chaos. Especially at that point in the race, when you know a lot of guys are going to take some chances to move up spots for the final lap.