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Bahrain GP in Malaysia: Every time F1 raced under another country's name

Motorsport.comJuly 28, 2026

Curated for Torqlytics readers — aggregated from trusted F1 publishers, not original reporting.


The announcement that Formula 1's return to Malaysia this year would be branded as the Bahrain Grand Prix prompted both amusement and confusion. Sepang, after all, was the first of the Hermann Tilke-designed generation of modern F1 circuits in Asia, making Malaysia an important fixture on the calendar. Even after the country terminated its contract with FOM in 2017, the circuit has remained ...
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