Saw it coming. And it happened. Kevin MagnussenDanish pilot haas that next season he will no longer compete with the American team and that he currently does not have a seat, he is in trouble: in monza He lost all the points he had left on his driver’s license and will not be included in the race at the next event in Baku.
Magnussen lost the last two points he had left monza after receiving a penalty of those two points for a crash at turn 4. We will have to wait to see who replaces the Dane at Haas, although he pointed to Oliver Bearman, who will be a Haas driver in 2025 and that has been replaced. Carlos Sainz entered Jeddah at the beginning of the course when the Spaniard had to undergo surgery for appendicitis.
This is how the points license works in F1
Since 2014, with the implementation of the F1 points license, each driver has 12 points on their superlicense. These 12 points can be deducted as stewards penalize drivers for accidents or track violations. Each point lost will be recovered after one calendar year since the sanction. And if within that year a driver loses 12 points, he will be punished with a ban from competing in a Grand Prix. That’s something that has never happened with this points licensing system. Kevin Magnussen was the first.
Magnussen, many penalties
Magnussen’s year has been full of aggressive actions beyond any limit, which left him on the brink of exclusion a few races ago.
After Miami, the Dane had already lost 10 out of 12 points, in only 6 events, something that forced him to compete in the remaining 18 events knowing the risk of receiving a penalty that would leave him without points. But in the end, he did not succeed.
He is not the first to be excluded from F1 but he is with this system
Magnussen is the first driver to be allowed without running in the next race since the introduction of the current super license points system. But similar cases have occurred before. In addition, Grosjean was allowed in 2012 not to compete in the Monza race due to the cause of an accident that caused Alonso and Hamilton to abandon at the start of the Belgian GP of that year.
He lost 5 points in one weekend in Miami
It’s no secret that Magnussen is one of the most aggressive drivers on the grid and on many occasions drives at the limit of the regulations. A clear example of this is what happened last weekend in Miami.
On Saturday in Miami, in the sprint race, he defended himself against Hamilton, first holding the Englishman and then forcing him off the track by going too hard on the brakes inside a curve. All, to allow his teammate Hülkenberg, riding in front, to have time to add the two points that gave him 7th place. That defense of his teammate, going beyond any kind of limit, is reminiscent of what Kevin himself did in Saudi Arabia this season, where he was penalized 20 seconds during the race while creating a large train behind him which benefited Hülkenberg so that the German could add a point.
A day later, Kevin didn’t learn his lesson and caused an accident with the Sergeant that led to the American’s retirement. He did it in a very positive action, trying to pass the Williams driver with no space in a corner that was too fast.
So, throughout that weekend he added 65 seconds of penalty (between race and sprint) and 5 lost superlicense points which left him on the edge of the fridge. And it didn’t take long to polish off the remaining points.
Source: La Verdad
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