Formula 1 race director and FIA safety delegate Michael Masi has confirmed the investigation into the Formula 2 accident w♏hich claimed the life of Anthoine Hubert on Saturday is already underway, with no dead♉line being set for its completion.

Hubert was killed in a multi-car crash on Lap 2 of the F2 Fea🦋ture Race🦩 on Saturday at Spa-Francorchamps, marking the fi💛rst death of a driver from injuries sustained on a grand prix weekend since Jules Bianchi's passing in 2015.

The FIA confirmed in the statement announcing Hu𝕴bert's death on Saturday tha🃏t it would be launching an investigation into the crash, with Masi offering further details in his post-race debrief on Sunday at Spa.

"There’s an investigation that start🌸ed ye♎sterday. It will go from here," Masi said.

"The FIA, with our technical department, our safety department, all the various departments within ꧅tꦬhe FIA, have commenced an investigation immediately.

"The FIA together with the RACB, the Royal Autom෴obile Club of Belgium,🏅 will work together with the authorities, and the investigation will go on and go from there.

"There are manꦡy facets. I won’t be going into any detail until we look at everything as a whole picture."

Asked when the investigation would be completed ওby, Masi said: "I can’t give you an answer. I don’t think ﷺwe’ve put any time on it.

"The safety, medical, technical departments within the FIA, together the FIA with the Royal Automobile Club of Belgium, which is the FIA’s designated s𓃲porting body, is working with the local authorities, and will go through that process.

"We’ll go through the process basically of conducting a full and complete investigatio🅘n, as the FIA does with all serious incidents. It doesn’t matter if it’s circuit racing, rallying, whatever i𝓀t may be. It will be all aspects of the incident."

Masi said he "wouldn't want to speculate" if any safety changes would be made ahead of this weekend's F2 event at Monza, but under💖lined the FIA's commitment to improving safety standards throughout motorsport.

"I think safety iꦜs ever-evolving. There’s a fe🍌w of you in this room that have been involved in attending F1 races for a lot longer than me, and have seen the upward evolution of safety in that short period of time," Masi said.

"Once different technologies become available, different materials become available, safety is an ever-evolving process. It is for me not something that will ever end. I’ve said it before and I’ll repeat it, safety is one ꦬof the core pillars of the FIA and why they exist, and that was something that 🙈just won’t stop.

"We’🐼ll continue to research and look at things and improve things as best💖 as we can."

Officials at Spa announced shortly after Hubert's death that the planned F2 Sprint Race ♚at Spa on Sunday would be cancelled, something Masi said was a joint decision between the promoters, the FIA and the local authorities in Belgium.

"From the point of view of cancelling F2, we looked at everything together. There were other powers in play from a locaꦿl of point of view that we had to respect," Masi said.

"Between F1 Group and the FIA, we worked together and came up with another timetable. We obviously 🍸had local laws to respect.

"When there’s an incident of that critical nature, you obviously need to work wit𝕴h the local authoritie꧒s."