It really does needs more clarification on when and where credit, and penalty times are served, as it looks like it is made up as they go at the moment and has been different in some cases in different years.
If penalty times are being awarded after the finish, then that is different to last year when Pavel and Eugeni served their penalty at the next CP, after taking to a road instead of following the route across fileds.
The fact that credits were given for those that were picked up and taken back to Middleton, well that has never happened before so is a new one, and has obviously been allowed as extra time during the race, not after the finish.
Runners need to know all these things beforehand and I will make that point to Scott if no one else has done so already.