Legendary Formula One team Ferrari led the tributes to the victims of Tuesday's terrorist attacks in the United States on the first day of practice for the Italian Grand Prix.
At exactly 12 noon local time (11am Irish time), all the Formula One personnel stopped and stood silently for a minute between the practice sessions.
After that, the sports governing body, the International Automobile Federation (FIA) said there would be a 10-minute break in which no engines would be run.
"It is difficult to find the right expression to describe either what happened there or how we feel about it," said Ferrari's world champion Michael Schumacher.
"I am sure the feelings about the events on Tuesday are much the same among us all. Naturally, our sympathies are with the people over there. We offer them as much support as we can offer."
Additionally the Ferrari team, which was planning a number of celebrations with its fans after collecting the driver and constructors world titles, put into action several other ways of paying tribute.
As a mark of respect, its cars will carry no logos relating to its commercial and technical partners.
Only the prancing horse symbol was evident and it had a black nose cone instead of red.
In today’s practice, which was led by Schumacher, the Ferrari personnel wore simple red uniforms without any emblem in sharp contrast to all the other teams.
Ferrari was the only team to do anything obvious out of respect to the victims in the United States.
The Italian race had been in question in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.
However officials at the Italian Grand Prix said they would continue to race but reduce many of the festivities which normally take place over the weekend.
There was concern about the other races but FIA has said it has no plans to cancel any, especially the next race, the U.S. Grand Prix on September 30th.
The team owners met Thursday in Monza and agreed that they should race in Indianapolis.
"For the moment, there is no question of not racing in America in two weeks' time, or of not racing in Japan," Benetton team boss Flavio Briatore said.
Most of the drivers and team personnel are in favour of racing there.
"It (US Grand Prix) should go ahead," said Williams' Colombian driver Juan Pablo Montoya said.
"It's a tough decision, but they should try to keep going. For a weekend, or a few days, it could take the minds of a lot of people off (what happened), and might even give them a bit of joy."
However there were a few dissenting opinions.
"If I go to Indianapolis in a situation that is not normal, some worry exists. It will not be an easy transfer for everyone," Jarno Trulli of the Jordan team said.
"Certainly I am worried that we should compete in a country which is in a state of emergency," said Jean Alesi, now of the Jordan team after racing for Prost earlier this year.
Montoya's team-mate Ralf Schumacher, the brother of Michael, came out strongly against the race saying he would not bring his family or fiancee there - however he did not say he would boycott the race.
AFP