Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone has said October's reinstated Bahrain Grand Prix cannot go ahead.
The race was due to open the season in March but was called off because of civil unrest. Last week the FIA restored it to the calendar.
"Hopefully we can return in the future, but of course it's not on," Ecclestone told BBC Sport's Dan Roan.
"The schedule cannot be rescheduled without the agreement of the participants - they're the facts."
The teams wrote to the FIA on Tuesday expressing their objections to Bahrain being put back on the calendar.
The decision to reinstate Bahrain was taken at a meeting of the FIA World Council on Friday, where the vote was passed without any objections.
But it seems the FIA had overlooked article 66 of its own sporting code, which says that no amendments can be made to the arrangements for a championship after entries open without the agreement of all competitors.
A senior insider described this oversight as "extraordinary".
Technically speaking, the vote remains valid, and in theory the FIA should have another vote to cancel it.
In reality, though, because the FIA did not follow its own rules, the teams can simply ignore it, as the vote cannot take effect without their agreement.
That means that, because the teams have formally objected to the reinstatement to the Bahrain race, it cannot now take place this year, so the event will not happen, regardless of what actions the FIA now takes.
An FIA spokesman emphasised that the decisions to initially call off the race in February and then to reinstate it were both proposed by Ecclestone.
He also added that no-one had voted against the decision to bring back the Bahrain race at last Friday's meeting.
The Bahrain Grand Prix was called off in February because of pro-democracy protests in which more than 20 people died.
However, the FIA chose to reinstate the race after a report suggested that the country's situation has "stabilised". Bahrain was given India's slot on the 20-race calendar on 30 October with the inaugural race in India moved to a provisional date of 11 December.
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