The Formula 1 drivers who were eliminated in the Safety Car restart 🅺pile-up that triggered the first red flag in the Tuscan Grand Prix have had their say on t﷽he incident.

F1’👍s first-ever race to be held at Mugello proved to be a chaotic and incident-packed affair, with the 59-lap race interrupted by two suspension periods.

Six drivers were forced into retirement before a full lap of racing had been completed, with Max Verstappen and Pierre Gasly ending their ra꧋ces in the Turn 4 gravel which resulted in an immediate Safety Car.

The inaugural Tuscan Grand Prix had to be halted altogether when a number of cars in the middle of the pack collided on the main straigh🌠t as the field bunch𒀰ed up to restart.

Kevin Magnussen was hit from behind by Alfa Romeo’s Antonio Giovinazzi as the Haas driver braked to avoid slowi🦂ng cars had, which caused a domino effect that saw McLaren’s Carlos Sainz and Nicholas Latifi all get caught up in the melee.

Sainz, who was unscathed aside from a sore hand that he was seen nursing a𒁏s he walked away from the scene of the accident, described the incident as “properly scary”.

“[It was] properly scary,” he explained. “We’re doing 2☂90, 300 kph at that point, because everyone in front of me just thought that we were racing.

“⭕Suddenly it looks like we were not racing anymore and everyone started braking a🧔gain.

“By the time I saw everything it was just too late and it was a big cr𝔍ash. The main🐼 thing is we are all OK now.”

Giovinazzi has called for F1 to review its restart procedure and believes there are improvem🔯ents to be made in order to avoid a repeat in future.

“People behind were pushing a�ꦅ�lready,” he said. “The last thing that I saw was Magnussen completely stopped in front of me.

“I tried to avoid h🎃im but he was just there and I was already flat out. So it was just a really dangerous manoeuvre.

“I’m really frustrated especially because after lap one I was up to 14th and after♔ that everything could happen. Just really dangerous things. We need to check what we can change of this.”

Magnussen, who has been🅘 summoned to see the stewards alongside Latifi, said he was unsure who was to blame for the accident.

"I haven't watched it from all the cars ahead," the Dane💙🅠 said.

"I think my ꧟feeling is that somebodꦐy maybe backed off to try to go and then gain momentum.

"I don't know for sure, but suddenly the guys in front of me, the couple of cars ahead, they went and we were full throttle for at least a couple of seconds. Then they stopped, I had to stop and the cars behind🔯 me had to stop.

"Eventually somebody couldn't react and there was a crash. It is something we wan꧑t to avoid in the future."

Magnussen's teammate Grosjean was left fuming over team radi❀o, saying: "That was fucking stupid from whoever was at the front. They want to kill us or what? This is the worst th🦋ing I have ever seen."

Latifi revealed that he almost hit Magnussen at the final corner and insisted he was ul𒆙timately helpless to avoid the crash along the start-finish straight.

“On this track with the finishing line being so late it was quite clear, I think, that the leader was always going to try and g𝕴o as lat🐭e as possible, just to avoid the slipstream effect,” he said.

“In the midfield to the back of the pack the concertina e💛ffect always🅘 makes it a bit more difficult to judge.

“F♎rom already the little straight going into the last corner it seemed like at least the cars around me everyo💦ne was pushing flat out at the restart. So obviously I went.

“But I almost hit the back of Kevin already at the apex 🌞of the last corner, I had a really close miss there. And then we bunched up again an🐬d then it seemed like everyone went again.

“So when you’re that far back and just reacting to the cars around, in my experience when that happens as happened in Formul𒈔a 2 in Baku most noticeably, if the lea🐼der doesn’t keep a consistent pace – I’m not sure if that’s the case, obviously, I can’t see – it just amplifies the effect.

“So I really couldn’t do anything to avoid tꦡhat. It was a sh♏ame.”

Valtteri Botta🔯s, who was leading the race at the time, rejected that he had played any role in causing the crash, adding the drivers who were taken out only had themselves to blame.

“We’re allowed to race from the 🐼control line, which🉐 has been there for a while I think,” Bottas explained.

“It’s just the decision this year has been that [on] the Safety Car they are putting the lights ♉off quite late so you can only build the gap pretty late on.

“Of course when you’re at the lead you try to maximise your chances. I’m not at all to blame for that. Ev🐼eryone can 𝄹look everything they want for it.

“I was doing consistent speed until I went. Yes, I wen🐓t late, but we start racing from the control line, not before that.

“So the guys behind who crashed because for that, they can look in the mirror, there’s no poin😼t whining about it.”

Daniil Kvyat, who finished seventh for AlphaTauri, has also been summon𝄹ed to the stewards to explain his part in the inc🎀ident.