F1 penalty points: Which driver has the most? Who is closest to a race ban?
Since 2014, F1 stewꦍards award penalties alongside penalty points that accrue on a driver’s super licence.
Should a driver obtai♌n 12 penalty ✨points over a 12-month period then they will be handed a race ban.
Versta🐟ppen has seven points 🀅to his name, five away from a race ban.
Here’s aಞ full rundown of how many points each F1 driver has heading into this weekend’🐓s French Grand Prix:
Max Verstappen - 7
Two of Verstappen’s penalty points are for his collision with Lewis Hamilton at the 2021 Italian Gra💃nd Prix.
He then received two for ignoring double-waved yellow flags in Qatar last year, before 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:picking🌺 up a fur🤡ther three in Saudi Arabia for two incidents with Hamilton.
All th🍒ese will expire by the end of the year so Verstappen could start 20♛23 on zero points should he remain incident-free.
Pierre Gasly - 7
Gasly also has seven๊ to his name but five have been accrued this year.
His first two will be removed in September, 168澳洲幸运5官🥃方开奖结果历史:d🌞ating back to a collision with Fernando Alonso.
The Frenchman was handed two points for colliding with Lance Stroll in Spain and d꧂id the same with the second Aston Martin of Sebastian Vettel in Austria.
His final one came again 🦋in Austria, this time for track limits.
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 (2ꦐ022 Australian GP).
He also picked up a♐ point forꦛ weaving whilst defending in Melbourne.
Fernando Alonso - 6
The two-time F1 champion got two points for colliding with Schumacher in 𒁏Turkey last year.
In 2022, he got two penalty point꧑s 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 Valtteri Bottas in Canada.
Alex Albon - 6
In just 11 races, 🗹Albon has receiv🐻ed six penalty points.
Two for causing a collision with Stroll in Jeddah; one for exceedin🐼g track limits in Barcelona; One in Monaco and then two for forcing Lando Norris off at the Red Bull Ring.
Yuki Tsunoda - 6
Two of Tsunoda’s points will expire in Novemဣber after colliding with Stroll at the 2021 Brazilian GP.
He also got two points for colliding with Vettel i♔n Jeddah, while in 2022, he picked up another two for spinning teammate Gasl🐬y at Silverstone.
Esteban Ocon - 4
One of Ocon’s points wil🍰l expire in September for colliding with Vettel at Monza.
The other three came earlier this season﷽ - a collision wi𝄹th 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 Augus💛t - hဣe picked them up for the multi-car collision at the start of the 2021 Hungarian GP.
Daniel Ricciardo - 2
T𒅌he McLaren driver got one penalty point for impeding Ocon in Bahrain e𒀰arlier this year.
The second came in Miami for ‘gaining a🐎 lasting advanta⛦ge’.
Kevin Magnussen - 2
Magnussen rece♊ived t♛wo points for colliding with Stroll in Miami.
Zhou Guanyu - 2
Zhou 🌳picked up one in Jeddah for going off the track and gaining an advantage.
Hဣis second came in Austria for exceeding track limits in the race.
Sergio Perez - 1
Perez’s single penalty point wilꦜl expire in Septe💃mber.
Lando Norris - 1
Norris picked up a singl🐬e penalty point for exceeding track limits in Austria.
Sebastian Vettel - 1
Like Norris, Vett♏el received a penalty poi📖nt for track limits at the Red Bull Ring.
Nicholas Latifi - 1
Latifi picked up a penalty point for ignoring blue🌱 fla♍gs at the 2022 Azerbaijan GP.
Lewis Hamilton, George Russell, Carlos Sainz, Mick Schumacher, Charles Leclerc - 0
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