It was great to hear the crowd completely involved in that race, so much cheering you could hear over the mics

It was our pleasure
To be fair, apart from Vergne, a lot of the cheering (at my grandstand at least) was every time poor Rowland cruised by with his demolished front wing after the pile-up. I don't know if they showed it on TV but he eventually got rid of it by executing a proper 360 at the T3 run-off

The crowd is really picking up. You could see that Vandoorne has brought over some fans, a few Brazilians as well. It's starting to look like a proper motorsports event with team jerseys, flags, etc which was certainly not the case for all previous years.

Race control was good, but the FCY vs Safety Car still makes no sense to me. When the hailstorm hit, that was the time to throw a proper safety car. I thought they didn't want to bunch up the field, which is reasonable given what happened next. But then again, they did just that at the end of the race, on a wet track, despite a clear track where a 50kph FCY would've been just as good?