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Haas driver Kevin Magnussen is facing a one-race penalty following the Italian Grand Prix
Earlier this season Haas confirmed that Oliver Bearman would be driving for the team full-time in 2025. The Haas reserve and Ferrari super-sub made an incredible debut earlier this year at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, sliding into the cockpit of Carlos Sainz Jr.’s SF-24 after the driver underwent an emergency appendectomy, and delivered a seventh-place result for Ferrari.
But if you were worried you would need to wait a few more months to see his Haas debut, you might be in luck.
Current Haas driver Kevin Magnussen is facing a one-race ban following the Italian Grand Prix after race officials handed down a penalty to the Haas driver for causing a collision with Pierre Gasly. With Magnussen already sitting on ten penalty points for incidents earlier this season — which led Magnussen to state that he would need to be more “conservative” over the rest of the year — the two points handed down by race officials at the Italian Grand Prix means Magnussen now has 12 penalty points on his Super License.
Which triggers a one-race penalty ban.
Race officials implemented a ten-second penalty for Magnussen, but issued this written decision following the race which includes the two-point addition to his current tally:
Magnussen began racking up the points early in the year while playing the team game, helping make sure teammate Nico Hülkenberg was in position to bring home critical points for Haas at some races earlier in the season. Magnussen was hit with three separate penalties during the F1 Sprint Race at the Miami Grand Prix, as he fended off a chasing Lewis Hamilton in the closing stages of that race. While the strategy worked — Hülkenberg held on to finish seventh, bringing home a pair of points for the team — Magnussen was hit with three different ten-second penalties for leaving the track to gain an advantage, and following the race three penalty points were applied to his Super License.
Speaking with the media, including SB Nation, in Miami Magnussen addressed his approach to the F1 Sprint Race with Hamilton. “Just going slow and creating a gap,” said Magnussen. “But I’m not aware that that’s not allowed.”
Then Magnussen was cited for causing a collision with Logan Sargeant in the Miami Grand Prix the next day, and another two points were added to his Super License.
Ahead of the next race weekend, the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Magnussen admitted he would need to be more “conservative” the rest of the year.
“I think the next time it’s a race ban, so I think I’ll have to [be more conservative], but I don’t know. I think these situations where I’ve had to play the support role for my teammate, they have been paying off, so it’s been kind of valuable to us. I don’t love the way the rules are; that it’s possible. I would love it to not be possible at all,” said Magnussen. “But since the rules are as they are and I didn’t make the rules, I think there’s stuff to be looked at there. For myself, I’m on ten points, so I have to be careful not to get a race ban.”
Now, that race ban has arrived.
