{"id":892530,"date":"2026-09-12T03:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/892530\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T03:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:22:12","slug":"report-f1-call-on-qatar-abu-dhabi-races-could-be-pushed-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/892530\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: F1 call on Qatar, Abu Dhabi races could be pushed back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MU6ZV5LTZYU52TMF5BCZC6DRJM.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"532\"\/>Formula 1\u2019s decision on this year\u2019s season-ending Qatar and Abu Dhabi GPs reportedly \u201ccould slip to October\u201d despite a previously set mid-September deadline. Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">Formula 1\u2019s decision on this year\u2019s season-ending Qatar and Abu Dhabi GPs \u201ccould slip to October\u201d despite a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/07\/29\/f1-season-will-end-in-europe-if-qatar-abu-dhabi-unable-to-host-final-rounds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/07\/29\/f1-season-will-end-in-europe-if-qatar-abu-dhabi-unable-to-host-final-rounds\/\">previously set mid-September deadline<\/a>, according to sources cited by REUTERS. The sources also said that F1\u2019s 2027 race calendar is \u201clikely to be published next week.\u201d F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali had said in July that the season will end in Europe if the two races cannot be held in the Middle East due to conflict in the region. Sources said that a call on whether to hold the races is \u201clikely to be extended beyond September to allow as much time as possible for the November 29 and December 6 races.\u201d The expectation across teams has been that the races \u201cwill be cancelled even if local authorities are pushing for them to go ahead.\u201d Italy\u2019s Imola circuit is \u201cequally widely expected to be the replacement, with a race on December 6 seen by some as a foregone conclusion\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sports\/formula1\/qatar-abu-dhabi-decision-could-slip-imola-expected-host-f1-finale-2026-09-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sports\/formula1\/qatar-abu-dhabi-decision-could-slip-imola-expected-host-f1-finale-2026-09-11\/\">REUTERS, 9\/11<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Formula 1\u2019s decision on this year\u2019s season-ending Qatar and Abu Dhabi GPs reportedly \u201ccould slip to October\u201d despite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,12716,82],"class_list":["post-892530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-motorsports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}