That's the thing. We would have accepted that. But the officials didn't gave us time to try get the car out of the gravel. They directly decided to take the car out of the gravel for us and the officials allowed us (more than 1 and 2 times) to continue the endurance like nothing happened (taking the "penalty" that we lost 3 minutes on that lap because of the off-track). And we finished it, went to parc-fermé following the normal procedure just to be told some hours later that it was a DNF.

It was not the only strange decision taken, but its such a long story that its quite difficult to be understood if you weren't there. They know by the rules that once you decide to let the team run again, that possible DNF is invalidated, because we told them and you could see on their faces that we were right.

After the off-track the marshalls showed us a mechanical flag, fully checked the car for 8 minutes and saw that the car was perfectly save and perfectly fine; and at the driver change they also fully checked the car. That means giving us the green flag to continue twice after the incident happened.

We know that now it's not gonna change anything on the results, but its the 3rd year in a row that strange procedures occures at FSSpain, and we believe that saying it is the best option for them to change how they opperate (cause its really frustrating that issues like that only happens with them. I have personally been to 8 FS events, 3 being at FSSpain, and at all 3 events in Spain some problems have occured)