{"id":85755,"date":"2025-08-21T20:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85755\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T20:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:03:07","slug":"fia-clarify-looming-valtteri-bottas-grid-penalty-after-signing-with-cadillac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85755\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA clarify looming Valtteri Bottas grid penalty after signing with Cadillac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The five-place grid penalty issued to Valtteri Bottas at the 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix will stand, the FIA has confirmed to RacingNews365.<\/p>\n<p>Bottas was found guilty of causing a collision with Kevin Magnussen midway through the race at the Yas Marina Circuit and retired from the event as a result. Therefore, instead of receiving a time penalty, he was handed a five-place grid drop.<\/p>\n<p>Since the incident occurred during the final race before the Finnish driver lost his seat at Stake, he has yet to serve the penalty. As a result, it will carry over to the next grand prix in which he competes.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old is expected to be announced as a Cadillac driver soon, <a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews365.com\/cadillac-sign-first-f1-driver-for-2026-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">after RacingNews365 and Formula.hu broke news of his signing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, a recent amendment to the FIA&#8217;s sporting regulations initially appeared to offer him a reprieve.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new rule, grid penalties must be served within 12 months of being issued. This means Bottas\u2019 penalty would expire on 9 December 2025.<\/p>\n<p>It was therefore anticipated that the current Mercedes reserve driver <a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews365.com\/why-valtteri-bottas-will-not-serve-his-existing-grid-penalty-upon-f1-return\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">might have his penalty voided before joining the American squad<\/a> &#8211; unless he is called upon to substitute for either George Russell or Kimi Antonelli before the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>However, the FIA has clarified that this will not be the case.<\/p>\n<p>An FIA spokesperson told RacingNews365: &#8220;Currently, the penalty will stand, as there is no mechanism to retroactively amend the penalty that was applied under the regulations in force at the time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The change of regulation is intended to avoid similar anomalous situations in future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unless further changes are made before Bottas makes his Cadillac debut, he will start the 2026 season-opening Australian Grand Prix serving a penalty imposed nearly 15 months earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The five-place grid penalty issued to Valtteri Bottas at the 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix will stand, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-85755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85755","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=85755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}