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Qualifying on Saturday 3 October is scheduled to start at 16:00 in Malaysia, or 10:00 in the Netherlands. [Source 2] [Source 3]
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RacingNews365’s event listing places the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix at Sepang in Malaysia on Sunday 4 October. It gives a scheduled start of 15:00 local time and a planned race distance of 56 laps. [1]
The listed venue is in Malaysia despite the Bahrain Grand Prix name. The stated start time is 08:00 BST for viewers in Britain. [1]
Formula 1 schedules qualifying for the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia to begin at 16:00 local time on Saturday 3 October. Kuala Lumpur is eight hours ahead of UTC, making the planned start 08:00 UTC. [3]
Motorsport.com Nederland lists the corresponding start as 10:00 in the Netherlands, matching the time given in RacingNews365 Nederland’s article. RacingNews365 also shows 04:00 in a timetable that does not label its time zone; that entry does not establish a different Dutch start time. [2] [4]
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