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Sepang International Circuit · main straight and grandstands, 2007

FIA deletes race lap times for seven drivers at Sepang

Archive photograph: Sepang International Circuit · main straight and grandstands, 2007 · 2007-11-25Archive photo · 2007-11-25 · mondayblues · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

From the GPBeat newsroomPublished · · 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.