When F1 returns to the Jeddah circuit this weekend it will be just over a year since the Saudi state executed 81 men in one day, shortly before last year’s grand prix. Formula One’s partnership with the regime has coincided with an acceleration of executions.”. “The only way to bring about change is to pressure the Saudi authorities to end these human rights abuses. Formula One has an opportunity to do that this week and I am pleading with you not to waste it,” he wrote.

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