⚠️🚨 Liberty Media's F1 Group CEO Stefano Domenicali has announced that the Qatar & Abu Dhabi F1 GPs will go ahead, which presumably means November's Qatar round will also happen. (MotoGP is a subsidiary of the F1 Group.) What else to call this but outrageously greedy & irresponsible?
Liberty are sending thousands of staff into a war zone to race cars (& probably motorbikes) around in circles to somewhat alleviate the financial damage done to the company by the US/Iran war, which has wiped $2 billion off its market value.
Yes, Domenicali says “everything is in order” and all three events may pass without incident, but that's not the point.
The Iranian regime may not plan to strike F1 or MotoGP, but due to communication blackouts and the deaths of military leaders, the IRGC has delegated launch authority down the ranks. ie any IRGC drone or missile operator can decide what makes a good target.
Hoping Liberty puts lives beyond dollars. Beyond that, hope all three events go OK. But this is a new low.