“The F1 circus arrived in Saudi Arabia days after a mass state execution”
A MISSILE ATTACK ON AN OIL depot just a few miles from the track on the Friday of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix illustrated the stark reality of taking the sport into a conflict zone. Even before that, things hadn’t got off to the most comfortable of starts, the circus arriving there just days after a mass state execution of 81 people, many for belonging to groups on the ‘wrong’ side of the Saudi-Yemen conflict and thereby classed by the state as terrorists.
