F1 presses ahead with plan to hold season finale in Middle East despite safety concerns
- Newsrooms
- 7
- Last 3 hours
- 0 reports
- Momentum
- Quiet
0 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
Against the past week
More newsrooms than 94% of the past week’s 3532 stories, and number 15 of 1040 in Sport.Why it’s moving
- ScoopSky Sports had it 1 hr before anyone else.
1File photo: Formula One
The 2026 Formula 1 season will conclude with the Qatar and Abu Dhabi grands prix as planned, with Italy's Imola circuit stood down as back-up for the races.
The Guardian didn’t include a summary, so this is BBC Sport’s, from its report on the same story.3
The story so far
7 newsroomsCooling- Reports
- 8
- Newsrooms and sources
- 7
- Last 3 hours
- 0
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (0 in the last three hours, 0 in the three before).
First with it: Sky Sports, 1 hr 5 min before anyone else.
Reported by 7 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: PerthNow, The West Australian (all Seven West Media).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 7
- Over
- 3.3 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 1.1 hr



