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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kieran Jackson

Four races in a row? Key details revealed as F1 eyes Bahrain or Saudi ‘reschedule’

Formula One is “continuously evaluating” the possibility of reinstating one – if not two – of the Middle Eastern races cancelled last month due to the conflict in the Gulf.

The Bahrain and Saudi Arabian GPs, scheduled for April, were taken off the 2026 calendar in mid-March, a fortnight after Donald Trump targeted missiles at Iranian military and government sites, provoking retaliatory strikes throughout the region.

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