@MrShumacher @Celtic Pharaoh I saw that first lap incident so thought I'd put the video up. There was another bit of contact immediately before your contact which might have been a factor.
Later in that first lap I was following
@Ture who was very unfortunate to fall foul of over-zealous cutting rules and found himself with a drive through penalty after narrowly running wide 3 corners in a row. I'd have been tempted to park it myself after that.
I think that needs looking at in the game - at least give server admins the option of setting how many infractions lead to a penalty - longer races should surely have more margin for error.
As for me, I was pleased to get through the perilous first lap on cold tyres but then went and binned it on the second lap, once everything was warmed up. Still, I think it ended up being a much more interesting race than if I hadn't had the spin.