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

Hubert💦 was killed in a multi-car crash on Lap 2 of the F2 Feature Race on Saturday at Spa-Francorchamps, marking the first de🔯ath 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 Hubert's death 🍸on Saturday that it would be launching an in𒁃vestigation into the crash, with Masi offering further details in his post-race debrief on Sunday at Spa.

"There’s an investigation that💞 started yesterday. It will go from here," Masi said.

"The FIA, with our technical department, our safety department, all the various departments w🎃it𝓰hin the FIA, have commenced an investigation immediately.

"The FIA together with the RACB, the Royal Automobile Club of Belgium, will work t🌄o🅷gether with the authorities, and the investigation will go on and go from there.

"There arꦗe many 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 by🎐, Masi said: "I can’t give you an answer. I don’t think we’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 sporting 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 investigation, as ജthe FIA does with all serious incidents. It doesn’t matter if it’s circuit racing, rallying, whatever it ma✅y 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 underlꦅined the FIA's commitment to improving safety standards throughout motorsport.

"I think safety is ever-evolving. There’s a few 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-evolvi♔ng process. It is for me not something that will ever end. I’ve said it before and I’ll꧟ repeat it, safety is one of 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 𝓀improve 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 w💛as a joint decision between the promoters, the FIA and the local authorities in Belgium.

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

"Between F1 Group and&n꧑bsp;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 with the local authorities."