Stefano Domenicali has issued a strident defence of Formula 1’s controversial decision to race on in Saudi Arabia after the events of Friday. We did that on Friday,” Domenicali said on Sunday when asked about the criticism.”. When asked if there are now ‘question marks’ about Saudi Arabia’s long and lucrative F1 deal, though, Domenicali answered: “Question marks is not the right word. “But we do need to investigate and understand the situation as best we can.”. “To the best of my knowledge, there have been no attacks on Saudi Arabia for a long time that resulted in civilian casualties, so we just need to understand that this is culturally very different from what we are used to in terms of our Western cultural values.

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