That was the fault of a few drivers. I was almost involved in it myself. That is a tough spot to start a race from and the admins/pace car should have allowed the field to bunch up more than they did before the final chicane.
Also The leading cars accelerated much to quickly before the start line. They were at nearly 80mph before some people were past the last turn.
A couple newbie mistakes from us during that race. We ended up racing on our qualifying set. I'm still surprised I made it an hour and ten minutes into the race on one set of r2's.
We had an incident that gave us quite a bit of damage so we pitted just for damage. On our second pit-stop we changed drivers and just then noticed we were using the wrong set. So we pitted again for R3's. That helped us make it the next 50 minutes. On our next driver change we decided to go back to r2's with adjusted pressure to attempt to gain some time back. We ended up overfueling the car which made the tires wear much faster. The front right popped with about 12 minutes to go dropping us back one position. Our 5th and final pitstop was just a quick tire change that got us to the end.
Overall I think we did ok considering how many mistakes we made. And we will be much better prepared for the next races.
Thanks to the Admins and other drivers for putting on a great race.
My View on the matter is that It could have ended so much worse for me If I had been closer to the garage or hit into the garage rather than away from it. Everyone knows what happens when you hit the wall of a garage.
I do not think there should be a penalty but I do hope that everyone will be much more careful in the pits.