- Ferrari team principal: ‘They understand the importance to stay’
- ‘I don’t think we said they are 100% happy and fully relaxed’
Ferrari’s team principal, Mattia Binotto, has admitted Formula One drivers are not 100% happy about taking part in Sunday’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. The drivers staged a four-hour crisis meeting which lasted until 2.30am local time on Saturday morning, following a missile strike on an oil refinery just 12 miles to the east of the Jeddah Circuit.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for the attack on the Aramco facility in Jeddah. It is understood a number of the 20-strong grid, including Britain’s seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton and two-time world champion Fernando Alonso, wanted to boycott Sunday’s race.