F1 penalty points: Which driver has the most? Who is closest to a race ban?
Since 2014, F1 st🐻ewards award🎐 penalties alongside penalty points that accrue on a driver’s super licence.
Should a driver obtai🧔n 12 penalty points over a 1ꦉ2-month period then they will be handed a race ban.
Verstappen has sev♑en points to his name, five away from a race ban.
Here’s a full rundownꦅ of how 🐈many points each F1 driver has heading into this weekend’s French Grand Prix:
Max Verstappen - 7
Two of Vers👍tappen’s penalty points are for his c♊ollision with Lewis Hamilton at the 2021 Italian Grand Prix.
He then received two for ignoring double-waved yellow flags in Qatar last year, before 168澳洲5💫最新开奖结果:picking up a fur💦ther three in Saudi Arabia for two incidents with Hamilton.
All these will expire by the end o🌳f the year so Verstappen could start 2023 on zero points should he rem🅘ain incident-free.
Pierre Gasly - 7
Gasly also has s꧃even to his name but five have been accrued this year.
His first two will be removed in September, 🎐168澳洲5最新开奖结果:dating back to a collision with Ferꦍnando Alonso.
The Frenchman was handed two points for colliding with Lance Stroll in Spain and did the same with the second Aston Martin of Sebastian Vet♛tel in Austria.
His final one came again in Austria, this time for track li🦩mits.
Lance Stroll - 7
Stroll has seven penalty points on his licence after collisions with Nicholas Latifi (2021 Hungarian GP), Gasly (2021 Russian GP) and🎀 Latifi again (2022 Australian GP).
He also picked up a꧒ point for weaving whilst d🧸efending in Melbourne.
Fernando Alonso - 6
The two-time F1 champion gꦐot two points for coll💃iding with Schumacher in Turkey last year.
In 2022, he ♈got two penalty points for colliding with Gasly in Miami, one point for corner cutting and gaining an advantage, also in Miami, and one point for weaving when defending from Val🍌tteri Bottas in Canada.
Alex Albon - 6
In just 11 ဣraces, Albon has received six penalty points.
Two for causing a collision with Stroll in Jeddah; one for exceeding track limits in Barcelona; One in Monaco aℱnd then two for forcing Lando Norris off at the Red Bull Ring.
Yuki Tsunoda - 6
Two of Tsunoda’s point⛦s will expire in November after colliding with Stroll at theꦿ 2021 Brazilian GP.
He also got two points for colliding with Vettel in Jeddah, while in 2022, he picked up ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚanother two fo🌱r spinning teammate Gasly at Silverstone.
Esteban Ocon - 4
One of Ocon’s points will expire in S🌞eptember for colliding with Vettel at Monza.
The other three came earlier this season - a collision with Schumacher in Bahrain𝄹, and aggressive defence against Hamilton in Monaco.
Valtteri Bottas - 3
Two of Bottas’ points will be removed from his licence at the start of August - he picked them up 𝄹for the multi-car collision at the start of the 2021 Hungarian GP.
Daniel Ricciardo - 2
The McL🌺aren driver got one penalꦗty point for impeding Ocon in Bahrain earlier this year.
The second came in Miami for ‘gaining a lasting a𒊎d🎃vantage’.
Kevin Magnussen - 2
Magnussen received two points🅘 for colliding with Stroll in Miami.
Zhou Guanyu - 2
Zhou picked up one in Jeddah for ꦕg🌠oing off the track and gaining an advantage.
His s𝓡econd came in Austria for exceeding track limits in the raceღ.
Sergio Perez - 1
P𝔍erez’s single penal𓆏ty point will expire in September.
Lando Norris - 1
Norris picked up a single penalty po🌄int for exceeding track limits in Austria.
Sebastian Vettel - 1
Like Norris, Vett🥂el received a penalty point for track limits at ꦐthe Red Bull Ring.
Nicholas Latifi - 1
Latifi picked up a penalty point foඣr ignoring blue flags at the 2022 Azerbaijan GP.
Lewis Hamilton, George Russell, Carlos Sainz, Mick Schumacher, Charles Leclerc - 0
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