FIA allows Russian drivers to continue racing, F1 Russian GP cancelled

Following an extraordinary meeting of the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council on Tuesday, it announced a raft of measures in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

While there had been calls from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to bar all Russian competitors from events, the FIA elected not to go that far.

In a statement the FIA said that it had approved that: “Russian/Belarusian drivers, individual competitors and officials to participate in…