Saudi Arabian authorities would have called off the Gulf kingdom's Formula One race if there had been any security threat to the event after an attack by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis on an oil storage facility near the track in Jeddah, the country's sports minister said.
One of the targets was a petroleum products distribution station owned by state-run oil giant Aramco located about 10km to the east of the track.The strike, which followed similar attacks last Sunday, raised questions about whether the race should go ahead."If there is a threat, then rest assured we will cancel the race, but there is no threat and that’s what we discussed with everyone," Saudi sports minister Prince Abdulaziz Bin Turki Al-Faisal told reporters on Saturday.
Saudi state media on Saturday said fires at two storage tanks at the Jeddah facility, smoke from which was visible from the race track, had been extinguished.F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali said on Friday the sport had been given safety assurances. Drivers, who considered a boycott during a four-hour meeting, said in a statement on Saturday that authorities had assured them security was being ramped up to maximum."I really don’t have any details, I am not one of the security agencies," said Prince Al-Faisal.
"But for sure, there are communications between Formula One and our security agencies to ensure that everyone’s security is number one priority and we link that together with them."
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