Saudi Arabian authorities would have called off the Gulf kingdom’s Formula One race if there had been any security threat to the event after an attack by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis on an oil storage facility near the track in Jeddah, the country’s sports minister said. The Houthi group on Friday said it had launched attacks on Saudi energy facilities. One of the targets was a petroleum products distribution station owned by state-run oil giant Aramco located about 10km to the east of the track. The strike, which followed similar attacks last Sunday, raised questions about whether the race sho…