Kevin Magnussen says won't chang♛e his approach to racing in Formula 1 despite recent criticism from fellow drivers. 

Magnussen was branded “the most dangerous 🍨guy I have ever raced with” b💮y Toro Rosso’s Pierre Gasly after a high-speed run-in during the closing stages of last weeken🤪d’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix, for which the Haas driver was hande൩d a 10-second time penalty. 

The Dane has come under fire over concerns regarding his recent driving standards, having also clashed with Nico Hulkenberg at last year’s Hungarian Grand Prix, prompti🥂ng the Renault driver to label Magnussen as the “most unsporting driver”. 

“I don’t like compromises. I will give everything. I will die in the car. I won’t hold back,” Magnussen is quoted as saying by Reuters in an interview during the build-up to the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. “I would put my life on (th꧋e line). Absolutely. When you put your helmet on and you’re in the race, I find that’s just everything there is in the world. 

“I love my family, and there’s so many things in life I enjoy, but when I’m in the ca✱r there’s nothing else that means anything. For me, whenไ I get in the car, the essential of life is Formula 1.”

“I race hard,” he added. “In a situation like this with a midfield team, you’re not guaranteed to score points. And💮 sometimes you have nothing to lose.

“You might get a penalty, you might lose your front wing but there’s nothing to lose if you’re 11th. Go for it. Sometimes you have to be 🌞a lot more aggressive when you’re fighting out there.

“If you are fighting for the championship, you have to play the long game. You have to change your approach. If I was fighting fo♔r the championship, you wouldn’t see me racing the same way.”

And Magnussen, who has previous voiced his dislike of the Halo cockpit protec💝tion system, said he would have preferred to race in the sport between the 1950s ൩and 1960s - often considered as F1’s most dangerous period. 

“I dream of racing in the ‘6ꦐ0s.  If I had one wish, I would say to be born in the ‘30s and be young in the ‘50s and ‘60s. It hurts my racing heart when I see things so far f🐭rom what it was back then. I envy those guys so much.

“It was just pure and more exciting. You could make a difference if you were re༺ally willing to take risks. A🐭nd also if you felt comfortable on that limit. Now everyone feels comfortable, there’s no risk.

“Back then, if you have the abiᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚlity to be calm and collected, on the limit of death effectively, you made a difference. And now that’s not really a factor any more.”