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FIA deletes race lap times for seven drivers at Sepang

FIA stewards deleted specified race lap times for seven drivers at the Sepang event for track-limits infringements at the designated turns. The decision did not announce additional race penalties.

GPBeat · Newsroom04 Oct 2026, 13:09 · 1 min

The FIA stewards deleted specified race lap times for seven drivers at the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia at Sepang for track-limits infringements at the designated turns.

The listed drivers were Pierre Gasly, Charles Leclerc, Lando Norris, Franco Colapinto, Nico Hülkenberg, Oliver Bearman and Kimi Antonelli. The decision states that the times shown were deleted under Article 12.4.1.e of the International Sporting Code.

The ruling concerns those lap times; it does not announce further race penalties or a change to finishing positions. The FIA's separate race classification was marked provisional and placed Max Verstappen first and Antonelli second.

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  1. PRIMARY SOURCEDoc 55 - Infringement - Race Deleted Lap TimesFIA F1 decision documents
  2. PRIMARY SOURCEDoc 53 - Provisional Race ClassificationFIA F1 decision documents
Source context

The classification cited here is provisional. The stewards' document deletes the specified lap times; it does not say that the race results or finishing positions were changed.

Claims and supporting evidence 3
The stewards deleted specified race lap times for seven drivers for failure to use the track at designated turns.

The decision states that cars listed in its table did not use the track at specified turns and orders deletion of the lap times shown.

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The FIA's separate race classification was provisional and listed Verstappen first and Antonelli second.

The document is titled provisional race classification and gives those drivers the first two places.

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The lap-time ruling did not announce additional race penalties or a change to finishing positions.

The ruling specifies deletion of listed lap times. The provisional classification is separately labelled and does not state the ruling changed the finishing order.

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Corrections and updates to this story
06 Oct 2026, 01:48

FIA deletes race lap times for seven drivers at Sepang

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