F1 driver banned for next race in Baku after Italian Grand Prix penalty

Kevin Magnussen will serve a one-race boycott in Baku afterward this month after hitting the punishment focuses limit.

Equation 1 drivers trigger an programmed one-race boycott on the off chance that they store up a dozen punishment focuses in a 12-month period. The Dane hit that limit at the Italian Terrific Prix on Sunday after picking up a 10-second time punishment for his role in an occurrence on track.

Magnussen gets to be the primary F1 driver to trigger such a boycott, since the FIA presented the current punishment focuses framework. Haas will require a substitution driver to accomplice Nico Hulkenberg at the Azerbaijan Fantastic Prix in two weeks’ time.

The American group has however to affirm who that will be. But they will be anticipated to turn to Oliver Bearman, the Ferrari junior driver who has completed hone sessions in their current cars and who has as of now been marked to race for Haas in 2025.

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Magnussen picked up his two most recent punishment focuses for an occurrence with Pierre Gasly amid the Monza race. The stewards affirmed without further ado after the conclusion of the Fantastic Prix that those focuses would be put on his permit together with the time penalty he had served amid the race.

Within the official choice report, the stewards composed:
“On the approach to turn four, Car 20 [Magnussen] endeavored to surpass Car 10 [Gasly] on the inside. While Car 20 had its front hub past the mirror of Car 10, the Driving Guidelines Rules indicate that an overwhelming car has got to ‘be driven in a secure and controlled way all through the manoeuvre’.

“The Stewards decided that this was not the case for Car 20 and consequently the driver was entirely to fault for the collision and consequently the standard punishment and punishment focuses are distributed.”