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Valtteri Bottas Receives Great News Before Season Opener In Melbourne
F1's retrospective rule limits grid penalties to 12 months, erasing Bottas's over-year-old sanction and expiring his Super Licence points before the Melbourne opener.
- Returning from a 2025 absence, Bottas will avoid a grid penalty at Melbourne after his 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix sanction, now over 15 months old, is nullified.
- Article B2.5.4 now limits unserved grid penalties to twelve months, and the amendment was applied retrospectively, according to formula1.com.
- The penalties trace back to a December 2024 collision in Abu Dhabi that involved Sergio Pérez; Bottas's car was too damaged to continue, so he missed the race and the 2025 season, leaving the penalty unserved.
- Cadillac's prospects in Melbourne improve with Bottas no longer carrying the old sanction, while Oliver Bearman faces pressure with ten Super Licence points as of September 7, 2025, risking a ban at twelve points until the Canadian Grand Prix.
- Reported on March 5, 2026, the tweak arrived days before the Australian Grand Prix this weekend, altering Article B2.5.4's section b retrospectively, formula1.com reported.
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Valtteri Bottas doesn't have to accept a penalty for the starting position when he comes back in Formula One. This is made possible by a change in the rules of the FIA. However, whether it will have a big impact on the Finn's sports performance remains to be doubted. "The matter is obvious due to new rules. So: no penalty for the starting position," Bottas explained shortly before the start of the new Formula 1 season in Australia. After a breac…
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'Happy Days!' - Bottas freed from threat of 2024 F1 grid penalty
March 5 - Cadillac's Valtteri Bottas has escaped a five-place grid penalty for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix after a change to Formula One's sporting regulations removed a drop he had yet to serve from 2024. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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