🔶 Formula 1 will hold two final races of the season in Qatar and Abu Dhabi.
Formula 1 plans to hold the final two races of the season in Qatar and Abu Dhabi as planned despite tensions in the Middle East.
The status of these two races has been in doubt since the war in Iran saw the Bahrain Grand Prix moved to Malaysia and the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix cancelled.
However, a source familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Formula 1 has now abandoned plans to use Italy's Imola circuit as an alternative for the final race of the season.
According to this source, who did not want to be published due to the fact that the details have not been officially published by Formula 1 and the Imola track, Formula 1 has already begun preparations for holding the race in Imola with the local authorities, but this Italian track and the teams have been informed that the race will not take place there. In the meantime, the head of the International Automobile Federation (FIA), the body that manages the Formula 1 races, announced that the countdown to the Qatar and Abu Dhabi races has begun and the necessary preparations are underway.