Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc provided a great on-track spectacle at Sunday’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, but the headlines generated off track this week will rightly continue to hang over this event for a long while to come.
It was a strange F1 race weekend, with the 48 hours before the race dominated by a nearby missile attack on an oil depot 10km from the circuit. At one point, it looked like F1’s 20 drivers would refuse to take part in the event and after agreeing to race they have demanded F1 re-evaluate its decision to continue to race in the country long term.
It would be wrong to focus first on the grand prix given the events of the days leading up to it.
Saudi Grand Prix controversy to rumble on
The idea of the Saudi Arabian GP going ahead was not a certainty on Friday…
