Betting on Formula 1 from Morocco: markets, settlement rules and race dates
Formula 1, officially the FIA Formula One World Championship, is a series of Grands Prix spread over a season, and every race hands out points to the drivers and to their teams at once. In 2026, 11 teams enter 22 cars. Finishers from first to tenth score 25, 18, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 points, and two titles are at stake over the year: one for drivers and one for constructors, where a team's total combines what its two cars bring home.
Three days, two formats: a Grand Prix weekend under the 2026 FIA rules
Day one of a standard weekend has two practice sessions of an hour each; day two brings the third practice and qualifying; the race is held on day three. On a Sprint weekend only one hour of practice remains. Sprint Qualifying fills the rest of the opening day, and the Sprint, a race of a little over 100 km, runs on day two before the Grand Prix qualifying session. Points in a Sprint go to the first eight, from 8 for the winner to 1 for eighth.
Qualifying eliminates cars in stages. Q1 runs for 18 minutes and the six slowest cars go out; after a seven-minute break Q2 lasts 15 minutes and knocks out six more; the ten that remain decide the top ten qualifying places in a 13-minute Q3. A race lasts the smallest number of complete laps adding up to more than 305 km (Monaco: 260 km). Should the two-hour limit expire first, the leader receives the end signal once the next lap is complete.
2026 brought a ground-up reboot of the cars. Roughly half of their power is electrical. The wings move between Corner Mode, the default setting for downforce, and Straight Mode, which cuts drag. A driver who gets within a second of the car in front at a set point on the track earns extra electrical power for the next lap through Overtake Mode, which in effect takes over from DRS. The maximum wheelbase is 200 mm shorter at 3.4 m, the tyres are narrower, and the engines run on 100% sustainable fuel.
Race and qualifying markets
Race and qualifying may be listed as two separate groups in the pre-match line: in October 2026, for example, the United States Grand Prix had one group for the race and another for qualifying, and its race page showed the markets in the table below. The selection may vary from one Grand Prix to the next. The last column relies on the final classification: section 10.33 of the site's rules defines only the race winner (item 5), while «In Top 3» and «Team Driver To Win» are labels used in the line, not items of the rules.
Market | The question | What settles it |
|---|---|---|
«Who Will Win» | Will this driver win the race? Yes or No, driver by driver | First place in the final classification |
«In Top 3» | Yes for a driver to finish among the first three | The final classification; a driver who is not classified has not finished |
«Team Driver To Win» | For every team, Yes or No: will one of its drivers win? | The winner in the final classification and the team they drive for |
The qualifying group then offered only the team market. Qualifying bets settle on the official FIA times, and penalties are ignored for these markets, so a grid drop handed out afterwards changes nothing; the FIA does, however, take time penalties imposed during qualifying into account when it names the fastest driver. A bet stands only if the driver started Q1. The «Fastest» market reads the Q3 times; without a Q3, the FIA's official grid decides.
Other markets are written into section 10.33 even though a Grand Prix page may not show them: head-to-head between two drivers, fastest lap, fastest pit stop (a stop to serve a penalty is ignored), the number of race leaders, whether a driver is classified or completes the race, and a driver's place in the final rankings.
When a driver does not finish: settlement rules
Settlement starts from the classification. The site and the FIA's 2026 Sporting Regulations draw the line in the same place: a driver needs 90% of the laps covered by the winner, rounded down to a whole lap, to be classified. If the winner does 56 laps, 50 is enough and 49 is not.
A driver who retires before that mark is not classified, so a bet on them to win or to reach the top three loses; the stake is not returned. A retirement after the mark leaves the driver classified in their position.
When a driver withdraws before the start, the general rules make every bet on that driver void.
A head-to-head needs both drivers to take the start. When both retire, more laps completed wins it, and if their lap counts match, odds of 1 apply.
A race that is not completed, with no official result declared, voids bets except on markets already decided. Item 1 of section 10.33 applies only when that official result is missing.
The 2026 and 2027 calendars, and when the line opens
Twenty-three rounds make up the 2026 season, one fewer than announced in June 2025. The official calendar, as it stood in October 2026, has six weekends left, none of them with a Sprint:
Round 18, United States (Austin): 23-25 October
Round 19, Mexico City: 30 October-1 November
Round 20, São Paulo: 6-8 November
Round 21, Las Vegas: 19-21 November
Round 22, Qatar (Lusail International Circuit): 27-29 November
Round 23, Abu Dhabi (Yas Marina Circuit): 4-6 December
The 2027 calendar, approved by the FIA World Motor Sport Council, has 24 Grands Prix across 22 countries and 10 Sprint events.
Betting follows the same calendar. A Grand Prix group is added ahead of its weekend and normally leaves the line once the round is run, so the Formula 1 section may stand empty between rounds, and it may also stay empty from mid-December until the run-up to the 2027 opener. The date on an event card is indicative under the general rules; the race date is the one in the official calendar. Formula 1 is listed with every other sport in the pre-match line.
Once a weekend is under way, its markets can move to Formula 1 in the Live section. An account opened in Morocco is kept in Moroccan dirhams (MAD).
Morocco and the Grands Prix of the Arab world
Morocco has hosted the World Championship once, on 19 October 1958, when the Moroccan Grand Prix closed that season with 53 laps of the Ain-Diab circuit near Casablanca. The circuit had already hosted a Formula One race in 1957, one that did not count toward the championship. Morocco is on neither the 2026 nor the 2027 calendar.
In the Arab world the first Grand Prix came to Bahrain in 2004; Abu Dhabi followed in 2009, Saudi Arabia and Qatar in 2021. In March 2026 Formula 1 announced that the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian rounds would not take place in April because of the situation in the Middle East region; the Bahrain Grand Prix was later run at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia on 2-4 October, while Saudi Arabia has no round in 2026. The 2027 calendar puts the region at both ends of the year: Bahrain opens the season on 12-14 March, Saudi Arabia hosts round two on 19-21 March, and Qatar (3-5 December) and Abu Dhabi (10-12 December) close it. Bahrain, Qatar and Abu Dhabi will each hold a Sprint.