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Binotto: Leaving Saudi Arabia 'not the right choice'

Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto says that leaving Saudi Arabia in the wake of yesterday's nearby missile attack in Jeddah "would not have been the right choice. After fending off a global pandemic, dealing with the consequences of the war in Ukraine, F1 was dealt another challenge on Friday when Yemen's Houthi rebels lobbed a missile on to an oil storage facility owned by F1 partner Saudi Aramaco and located just 10 km from the Jeddah Corniche Circuit. Two meetings on Friday with the F1's top brass and the FIA served the purpose of convincing the sport's teams that safety around the track had been heightened, which led to F1 boss Stefano Domenicali declaring that F1's teams supported the...
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