If Lando Norris with his first victory in F1 was the positive protagonist of the Miami GP, at the opposite pole there could be Kevin Magnussen, who after receiving four sanctions translated into more than half a minute of penalties in the Sprint, was also penalized for accident with Logan Sargeant that ended up causing the Safety Car that changed Sunday’s race.
On Saturday he received three for “going off the track several times and gaining an advantage” and on Sunday another two for causing a collision, which, added to the three suffered in Saudi Arabia and the two in China, bring the penalty points to ten on your Superlicense.
On Saturday he was also summoned by the stewards for alleged unsportsmanlike behavior and, although he was cleared, he will have to be very careful, because if he accumulates another two penalty points on his Super License before 9 March 2025, i.e. in the next 18 races, he will receive the Biggest punishment: a suspension from a Grand Prix.
Since Super License penalty points expire one year after they are acquired, and since all four of the Haas F1 Dane’s four infringements were committed this season, he will have to wait until next season to get them back.
After contact with the Williams ended the home driver’s race, Magnussen received a 10-second penalty and was allowed to continue to complete the race, but the points penalty was more painful for him. The commissioners had no doubts. “Magnussen is fully responsible for the collision,” they stated in the report.
Since the penalty points system was introduced, no driver has ended up accumulating 12 points, either because some of his points expired before the next penalty, or because he changed and softened his behavior, or because the stewards, in situations very close to the stop, they have a special eye.
In September 2020, Lewis Hamilton also reached the ten penalty points on his Super Licence, but the stewards of the Russian GP ended up returning his points and changing the punishment to a 25,000 euro fine for Mercedes. And, without going any further, Sergio Perez is eight points behind Saudi Arabia and won’t get his points back until September.
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