Stewards Rule No Penalty for Verstappen Despite Yellow Flag Breach
Max Verstappen broke the rule. The stewards said so in black and white. And then they let him keep his pole position anyway.
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Max Verstappen broke the rule. The stewards said so in black and white. And then they let him keep his pole position anyway.
Formula 1's governing body has managed to turn a routine red flag into a full-blown fairness crisis, and this time Aston Martin isn't just shrugging it off.
Forget the stewards' room for a second.
One sprint qualifying session, one Perez shunt, and one Verstappen already explaining himself to the stewards.
George Russell topped the only practice session Formula 1 will get in Singapore before things turn serious, and normally that would be a story worth taking at face value.
Lando Norris wants you to know that he's driving better than ever this season. The standings, inconveniently, disagree.
Fernando Alonso teased a mystery, and the paddock guessed wrong. Everyone assumed the 2027 'surprise' involved a GT car and a shared garage with Max Verstappen.
George Russell will start this weekend's Singapore Grand Prix from the back of the grid.
In this article we take you through the F1 news of Monday 5 October 2026 so you are up to speed again after a Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia that produced more storylines than most teams can handle in a single Sunday.
Alex Albon had the stewards' room booked, an erratic driving charge hanging over him, and a straight answer waiting for anyone who asked.
A mechanic stood in front of a wheel that was about to start moving, and the FIA's response was a fine so watered down that two-thirds of it will vanish if nothing similar happens again this season.
Aston Martin finally has something to show the sponsors.
Oscar Piastri didn't bother with the usual McLaren diplomacy after the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia.
Everyone wants to talk about the chaos in Sepang: the stalled cars, the lightning delay, the tyre gamble that wrecked half the grid. Fine.
Buried underneath the farce of stalled cars and lightning delays in Malaysia was a number that matters rather more than the chaos around it.
Mercedes released a statement in which Toto Wolff apologised to George Russell, making clear how seriously the team took what had happened.Russell was cruising to what looked like a strong result in Sepang, running third, behind team-mate Kimi Antonelli, in the closing stages, when his car simply gave up.
Lewis Hamilton didn't claw his way from 17th to third in the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia by sitting tight and hoping.
Four Formula 1 cars stopped on the formation lap in Malaysia because of a bug in FIA software.
Formula 1 cars stopping dead on a formation lap is not supposed to happen.
Max Verstappen has finally got his first win of the season, and he picked an appropriately ridiculous race to do it in.