Hum, I wonder just right now if allowing the train to go to full speed (and giving priority to the restart over other trains) was related with the pressure of carrying a prominent politician. Have the team of the ex-minister pressed RENFE with the need to arrive urgently so "just ignore the protocol this time"?.

Is speculation of course but at this moment we must evaluate every hypothesis.

Politicians are the kind of people that are caught in the highway driving at 200 Km/h, just to arrive in time to a meeting in a 20 people's village. Could explain the strange control behavior.