Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali says the sport will consider any further response to the missile strike which put the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in doubt “in the right way.”
The series faced calls to leave the country after an attack took place on an oil plant 10 kilometres from the track while first practice was taking place.
F1 drivers who expressed doubts about remaining in the country were persuaded to continue with the event in a late-running meeting on Friday night. Domenicali said in an interview on Saturday the drivers’ concerns were handled “properly”.
“When you have to manage such a situation I think that you need to divide the emotion with the rational aspect of it and try to manage all the information that you have to try to make the right assessment and to involve the right stakeholders, the right people in that decision,” he said.
Domenicali insisted the sport had put the safety of all involved before any other considerations.
“There’s been a lot of…