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F1: After Crash During Qualifying Session, Mick Schumacher Will Miss The Saudi Arabian GP

Haas F1 Team has confirmed that it will run only one car driven by Kevin Magnussen in the 2022 Saudi Arabian GP.

Mick Schumacher’s Haas rammed the wall at a high speed, demolishing the car

After showing brisk pace in Q1, Haas’ Mick Schumacher looked good for a Q3 appearance until his crash in Q2 with less than 5 minutes to go in the session. The high speed crash was hard enough to rip the car in two pieces, and the fact that he escaped with no injuries showed how much Formula 1 has progressed in terms of driver safety.

The German driver’s Haas VF-22 went over a sausage kerb at the apex of an extremely fast corner, which resulted in his car losing traction and ramming into the wall before getting dismembered. However, the crash structures in the car proved their worth absorbing most of the impact forces and keeping him unhurt. Schumacher needed help of the marshals and medical crew to get out of the car, and he was taken to the track’s medical centre where no injuries were apparent. He was then swiftly taken to  King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital in Jeddah for precautionary checkups via an air ambulance.

Source: https://www.carandbike.com/news/f1-mick-schumacher-to-miss-2022-saudi-arabian-gp-after-qualifying-crash-2845839

Saudi Arabia executes 81 men in one day for terrorism, other offences

Saudi Arabia executed 81 men including seven Yemenis and one Syrian on Saturday, the interior ministry said, in the kingdom’s biggest mass execution in decades.

The number dwarfed the 67 executions reported there in all of 2021 and the 27 in 2020.

Offences ranged from joining militant groups to holding “deviant beliefs”, the ministry said in a statement.

“These individuals, totalling 81, were convicted of various crimes including murdering innocent men, women and children,” the statement read.

“Crimes committed by these individuals also include pledging allegiance to foreign terrorist organisations, such as ISIS (Islamic State), al-Qaeda and the Houthis,” it added.

The ministry did not say how the executions were carried out.

The men included 37 Saudi nationals who were found guilty in a single case for attempting to assassinate security officers and targeting police stations and convoys, the statement added.

The mass execution is likely to bring back attention to Saudi Arabia’s human rights record at a time when world powers have been focused on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Rights groups have accused Saudi Arabia of enforcing restrictive laws on political and religious expression, and criticised it for using the death penalty, including for defendants arrested when they were minors.

Source : https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-executes-81-men-terrorism-other-charges-spa-2022-03-12/

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