Formula 1 drivers intend to influence decisions in the future. Already torn by the decision or not to race in Russia since the invasion in Ukraine (the Russian GP has since been canceled), the 20 drivers have lived through a “difficult and stressful dayin Saudi Arabia on Friday, where terrorist explosions sounded near the Jeddah Corniche route.
Although a number of them clearly expressed their intention not to run the second round of the season, they were finally convinced to do so after long and intense negotiations. But they do not intend to stop there, since Sky Sports reveals that the latter must now meet with Formula 1 decision-makers to discuss what happened in Saudi Arabia. “These incidents accelerated the pilots’ desire to have more influence on sports politics.“, assures the British media.
«We don’t decide where we’re going Lewis Hamilton had complained in Jeddah. I think we have the opportunity and the duty to try to make ourselves heard, and to do so as much as we can.The drivers, well aware that they now have more media coverage than ever, would like to participate in the decision-making process of a discipline which is dreaming of 30 races per season. always according to Skythis expected meeting could take place before the Australian Grand Prix on April 10.