Formula 1 and the FIA have confirmed the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix will go ahead as planned on Sunday following extensive discussions with drivers and team bosses after an attack on an oil depot close to the Jeddah circuit. Drivers were locked in a three-and-a-half-hour meeting in the paddock to discuss whether it should still take place, with Lewis Hamilton campaigning for it to be scrapped. The drivers remained in their meeting until 2:30am, having invited F1 chief executive Stefano Domenicali in to discuss the situation. After the second of two crisis meetings finished, the Italian said: ‘We’ve had a discussion with the drivers and team principals together with the Saudi authorities and Mohammed Ben Sulayem, the president of the FIA, and the governor of Jeddah.

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