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Hadjar, Lindblad and Colapinto exceed engine allocations before Malaysia race

An FIA report lists power-unit allocation breaches for Hadjar, Lindblad and Colapinto ahead of the Formula 1 event in Malaysia.

GPBeat · Newsroom05 Oct 2026, 23:52 · 2 min

The FIA’s technical delegate has recorded a seventh internal combustion engine for Isack Hadjar and a fifth each for Arvid Lindblad and Franco Colapinto at the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia. The season allowance is four per driver, so all three have exceeded it.

Lindblad has also taken a fifth turbocharger and a fifth exhaust set, exceeding the four-unit allowance in each category. The FIA’s earlier component record listed four of each for him.

RacingNews365 reports grid penalties for all three drivers and says Lindblad will start from the back. Formule.cz also reports a back-of-grid start for Lindblad. On Colapinto, RacingNews365 reports a new engine-related penalty in addition to an earlier sanction, while Formule.cz mentions a five-place penalty carried over from Azerbaijan.

The FIA documents record component use, not the size of any grid penalties. RacingNews365 describes the engine allowance as five per driver; the FIA records it as four. The drivers’ final starting positions remain to be settled.

Update

Red Bull’s Isack Hadjar has taken his seventh internal combustion engine of the 2026 season, exceeding the permitted allocation of four ahead of the 2–4 October Formula 1 event in Malaysia. An FIA technical delegate’s report also lists a fifth engine for Racing Bulls driver Arvid Lindblad and Alpine’s Franco Colapinto, putting both over the same limit. The report was sent to the stewards.

Lindblad has also taken a fifth turbocharger and fifth exhaust set, each beyond the permitted allocation. RacingNews365 reports the same component changes and calculates grid-place penalties of five for Hadjar as things stand, ten for Colapinto’s engine change and 30 for Lindblad.

RacingNews365 says Colapinto also carries a five-place penalty from Baku, bringing its reported total for him to 15 places. It describes Hadjar’s projected five-place drop as the position for now.

Sources 06

SOURCEThree drivers handed grid penalties for Bahrain GP in MalaysiaRacingNews365 English · Source date as found: 2026-10-02
SOURCEDocument 14 — New PU Elements for this CompetitionFIA · Source date as found: 2026-10-02
SOURCEDocument 9 — PU Elements used per Driver up to nowFIA · Source date as found: 2026-10-02
SOURCEColapinto v tom nebude sámFormule.cz · Source date as found: 2026-10-02
SOURCEDecision documents — Bahrain Grand Prix event sectionFIA · Source date as found: 2026-10-02 (retrieved)
SOURCEFIA bevestigt gridstraf Red Bull en HadjarRacingNews365 Nederland · Source date as found: 2026-10-02

Source context

FIA Documents 14 and 9 cover component allocations. The grid-penalty details cited here come from RacingNews365 and Formule.cz.

The FIA document is a technical delegate’s report to the stewards on component allocations, not a starting-grid penalty decision.

Claims and supporting evidence 11

FIA technical-delegate Document 14 records a new seventh internal combustion engine for Isack Hadjar and new fifth engines for Arvid Lindblad and Franco Colapinto. The recorded 2026 allowance is four ICEs per driver, and the report identifies these uses as non-compliant. Colapinto's new engine-allocation breach is therefore documented for this event.

This source finding must be read within the stated scope and source context. New ICE allocation breaches at the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia Report dated 2 October 2026; race weekend 2–4 October 2026; 2026 season allocations. Document 14 is a technical-delegate report to the stewards, not a supplied penalty decision. It establishes the recorded component breaches, not specific grid penalties.

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Document 9 records Lindblad with four previously used ICEs, four turbochargers and four exhaust sets. Document 14 records his fifth turbocharger and fifth exhaust set, each exceeding a four-unit season allowance, in addition to his new ICE breach. His new allocation breaches therefore involve multiple component categories.

This source finding must be read within the stated scope and source context. Lindblad's additional turbocharger and exhaust-set breaches Component counts and new-unit declarations dated 2 October 2026; 2026 season totals. The technical reports do not supply a sanction calculation. These counts alone do not independently establish a larger accumulated grid penalty or a back-of-grid order.

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RacingNews365 describes Hadjar's seventh ICE as one more than a five-engine allowance and describes fifth ICEs for Lindblad and Colapinto as exceeding five-engine allowances. That explanation is internally inconsistent and differs from the FIA's recorded four-engine allowance. These errors do not overturn the FIA-recorded breaches.

This source finding must be read within the stated scope and source context. Arithmetic and allocation discrepancies in RacingNews365's explanation RacingNews365 report published 2 October 2026, compared with FIA Document 14 dated the same day. The discrepancies concern the stated allocation and arithmetic. They do not, by themselves, establish that the reported sanctions are false or explain why the errors occurred.

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The supplied FIA component documents are technical-delegate reports. The displayed Bahrain-event section of the FIA document index lists Documents 14 and 9 but does not list a separate grid-penalty decision or final grid for these drivers. The packet therefore does not independently establish their imposed grid-drop sizes, Lindblad's formal back-of-grid sanction, or the application of a combined penalty to Colapinto.

This source finding must be read within the stated scope and source context. Verification status of grid sanctions and starting positions Supplied FIA document-index snapshot captured on 2 October 2026. This is a bounded statement about the supplied documents and displayed index section. It does not prove that no decision existed elsewhere or was published later. The applicable penalty provisions and an official starting grid are not supplied.

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RacingNews365 and Formule.cz both report new power-unit components for Hadjar and Lindblad and a back-of-grid start for Lindblad. RacingNews365 also reports a fresh engine-related penalty for Colapinto alongside an earlier sanction; Formule.cz mentions only a reported five-place sanction carried from Azerbaijan. That omission is not a denial of the new ICE breach recorded by the FIA. Formule.cz says Red Bull had not confirmed Hadjar's precise component, whereas the supplied FIA report identifies an ICE. Formule.cz credits Motorsport, PlanetF1 and FORMULE.cz.

This source finding must be read within the stated scope and source context. Agreement, differences and provenance of the two supplied media reports Media reports and FIA technical report dated 2 October 2026. The Motorsport and PlanetF1 originals are not supplied. The source credit does not establish an independent second reporting chain. The available timestamps do not establish whether Formule.cz's description of Hadjar preceded the FIA report. The media's sanction claims remain attributed reports rather than verified official decisions.

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For the event the FIA document calls the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, held 2–4 October, the FIA technical delegate sent the stewards a report on new power-unit elements. That establishes the reported component changes, not a formal stewards’ grid-penalty decision.

This source finding must be read within the stated scope and source context. Competition and official record 2–4 October 2026; report dated 2 October The event name follows the supplied FIA document. No separate stewards’ decision is among the supplied documents.

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The FIA technical delegate identifies Isack Hadjar as a Red Bull Racing RB Ford driver and reports that his new internal combustion engine is his seventh against an allowance of four new engines for the 2026 championship, breaching sporting regulation B8.2.2(a). RacingNews365 and the FIA record agree on the seventh engine and the four-engine allowance.

This source finding must be read within the stated scope and source context. Hadjar’s power-unit allocation 2026 championship; report dated 2 October 2026 An allocation breach is documented; the report does not itself specify Hadjar’s grid-place penalty.

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The FIA report identifies Arvid Lindblad with Racing Bulls RB Ford and Franco Colapinto with Alpine Mercedes. Each received a fifth new internal combustion engine against an allowance of four for the 2026 championship; the report says both uses breach B8.2.2(a). RacingNews365 also reports engine replacements for both.

This source finding must be read within the stated scope and source context. Other drivers’ internal combustion engines 2026 championship; report dated 2 October 2026 The FIA report does not assign grid-place totals to these breaches.

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The FIA report also records a fifth new turbocharger and a fifth new exhaust set for Lindblad, each against an allowance of four for the 2026 championship. It identifies both as regulatory breaches. This supports RacingNews365’s account of the components changed, but not its precise penalty total.

This source finding must be read within the stated scope and source context. Lindblad’s additional component breaches 2026 championship; report dated 2 October 2026 The report documents components and allocation compliance, not a 30-place stewards’ penalty.

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RacingNews365 calculates that Hadjar would lose five grid places as matters stood, Colapinto would receive ten places for his engine plus a previously incurred five places, and Lindblad would receive 30 places. These are the publication’s reported penalty figures, not figures stated in the supplied FIA technical report.

This source finding must be read within the stated scope and source context. Reported grid-place consequences Reported on 2 October 2026 for the forthcoming race The supplied documents do not include the stewards’ decisions or independent verification of Colapinto’s earlier five-place penalty. Hadjar’s projected starting-grid effect is expressly conditional in S1.

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The read FIA report and RacingNews365 agree on the relevant new components and breaches. RacingNews365 adds specific grid-place calculations and an account of Colapinto’s earlier penalty; the supplied FIA report neither states those totals nor resolves the earlier-penalty claim. No second independent media article was supplied for comparison.

This source finding must be read within the stated scope and source context. Relationship between the read publications Documents concerning 2 October 2026 This describes the contents of the supplied documents, not whether stewards’ decisions exist elsewhere.

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Corrections and updates to this story

05 Oct 2026, 23:52

De Nederlandse vertaling zegt nu dat Lindblad achteraan de grid zou starten, zonder daar ten onrechte uitsluitend de laatste plaats van te maken.

02 Oct 2026, 08:32

Updated with a material new development verified through a separate News Made Clear newsroom run.

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