Put yourself in Mouton's shoes. How would you feel if you were unhappy with a big crowd of spectators standing in an area you thought was risky - and despite worrying about it, let the stage run and a car ploughs into many people. Could you have that on your conscience for the rest of your life - that you ignored your instinct, worries and judgement from years in the sport, to take a chance and let the stage run. It would be on you.

99% of the time in sure it'd run safely, but she can't take the chance. It's different if it's one idiot who's positioned in a bad place - they might not even be picked up or spotted by any of the marshalls or safely crews. But after warning the crowd of people to move back or the stage is cancelled - and also doing it on AllLive too, she couldn't then let it run if they didn't move sufficiently. Spectators just had to suck it up and watch from a different place.

Marshalls and organisers could've done a better job earlier on of sorting the problem I agree, but Monte has always been too relaxed with spectator safety compared to other events it seems.