Imagine if we were in the old Second World War airfield called Silverstone two days before the British Grand Prix was due to take place, and a few miles down the road the latest in a series of explosions had gone off. 
How close, one wonders, would a series of missiles have needed to reach before serious consideration was given to cancel the whole thing?

Not least if there was a suspicion the event itself was part of a plan to heighten awareness of the bombers' cause?
To Milton Keynes' Centre:mk shopping mall? Or the Bull Inn at Stony Stratford? Or the service station on the A43?
Especially if the pounding had turned the area into a war zone twice in a week?





Yemeni rebels launched a missile attack on an Aramco oil depot 12 miles from the F1 circuit





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It should be pointed out that Stefano Domenicali, Formula One's chief executive, is a decent man, and we do not know the exact briefings he is receiving from the local authorities.

We have to believe he is reassured enough by the intelligence he hears to let 20 young men race as part of a 1500-strong F1 contingent tomorrow.
But it was hardly reassuring that he, at first, trotted across the paddock with barely a word of explanation to journalists last night.
As he ran, he shrugged his shoulders and said: 'We feel safe.' A few words in Italian to a Danish TV crew and that was it.

It was a lack of judgment that hardly rose to the summit of the occasion.
But, worry not, there was still time to talk sidepods at a team press conference along the paddock. All the while the acrid smoke hung in the windy air.
Domenicali was later nudged into speaking at more length but was still vague over the level of guarantee he had received that the Jeddah Corniche, where the tainted action will take place, will remain inviolate.




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