{"id":629739,"date":"2026-04-25T09:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629739\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T09:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:59:08","slug":"regulation-update-start-delayed-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629739\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulation Update: \u2018Start Delayed\u2019 procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Prix Commission has approved an update of Article 1.18.18 \u2013 Start Delayed. It takes effect immediately, from the Estrella Galicia 0,0 Grand Prix of Spain at Jerez onwards.<\/p>\n<p>After a Start Delayed is declared on the grid, the previous regulation said that the grid countdown would resume at the 3-minute board. This does not give teams enough warning of when they must stop work on the bikes.<\/p>\n<p>The regulation has therefore been updated. After a Start Delayed is declared on the grid, the countdown to the Warm Up lap will now resume at the 5-minute board. This gives teams sufficient warning of when they must stop work on the bike, which is at the 3-minute board.<\/p>\n<p>The full regulations can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fim-moto.com\/en\/documents\/view\/fim-2026-motogp-moto2-moto3-world-championship-regulations-update-24-april\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Grand Prix Commission has approved an update of Article 1.18.18 \u2013 Start Delayed. It takes effect immediately,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85,83],"class_list":["post-629739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}