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Formula 1 News: F1 Gets Egg on Its Face From Frankenstein Cars Once Again

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The 2026 Formula 1 cars stalled themselves on a formation lap at Sepang during the Bahrain GP on Sunday because a piece of FIA software decided the throttle no longer mattered. –by Mark Cipolloni– Front-row starters Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton, plus a string of others, crawled or stopped outright in the wet. The race start was abandoned, a software patch was rushed out, and spectators waited through a delay that stretched past 50 minutes a…

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Formula 1 News: F1 gets egg on its face from Frankenstein cars once again

The 2026 Formula 1 cars stalled themselves on a formation lap at Sepang during the Bahrain GP on Sunday because a piece of FIA software decided the throttle no longer …

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sky.it broke the news in Italy on Sunday, October 4, 2026.
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