Valtteri Bottas has affirmed that the drivers examined their choices, for example, not hustling in that frame of mind during Friday late evening's gathering.
Cycle two of the title, the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, was tossed into turmoil on Friday when dissidents went after an oil station around nine miles from the Jeddah circuit, hitting it with a rocket.
As smoke surged in the air, the drivers had a four-hour long gathering with Formula 1 managers and the FIA to talk about the present circumstance.
It wrapped up at 2am with F1 boss Stefano Domenicali pronouncing "we will race".
There have since been reports that the drivers were cautioned of the potential outcomes assuming they boycotted the race, with Bottas affirming that was up for conversation.
"We were totally concerned assuming it's safe for us all to be here to race here and we got respectable clarifications on things," the Alfa Romeo driver told The Race.
"Likewise we went through every one of the choices like imagine a scenario in which we don't race and for instance that implies the group actually needs to remain here for two or three days pressing stuff and dislike that we can out of nowhere make new trips to return home.
"We're as of now here so the most ideal choice was to race here. They expanded all the wellbeing offices and this large number of safeguards, so I think everybody concurred we should do the race and stay cautiously optimistic."
Found out if he by and by was alright hustling in Saudi Arabia, he answered: "I don't really want to respond to that inquiry."
With Formula 1 settling on the decision to go on with the race end of the week, Sergio Perez raged to his lady shaft position on Saturday night.
He, nonetheless, was one of the drivers who had second thoughts about remaining in the country.
He said: "We were worried about our wellbeing, yet additionally the security of our mechanics, engineers, everybody in here.
"Yet, clearly, there is such a lot of we know as drivers so it was simply significant we got all together.
"Toward the day's end, this is our game and we are all in it together. We felt that the correct thing was to go on and simply race.
"There isn't much of detail to be said."
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton would not tell the media where he by and by stood, the Briton saying: "haven't arrived to remark on that. We cooperated collectively, we as a whole examined and pursued a choice as a game."
Concerning Carlos Sainz, who will arrange P3 on the Saudi Arabian matrix, he says "now is the right time to zero in on the race. There will be a lot to talk about from now on."
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