At Singapore subsequent week Kevin Magnussen will change into the tenth driver within the historical past of the world championship to be banned from a spherical attributable to a driving infringement or infringements.
He’s the primary driver to be banned by accumulating penalty factors for a number of infringements. All of these earlier than him have been suspended due to incidents which occurred at a single occasion, and never all the time at an F1 race.
Jean-Pierre Beltoise, 1971
Jean-Pierre Beltoise was given two separate bans from a complete of 4 Components 1 races in 1971 for his function in a horrible crash which claimed the lifetime of Ignazio Giunti in the course of the 1,000 kilometres of Buenos Aires sportscar race. When his Matra ran out of gas on the last nook Beltoise started pushing his automobile the brief distance to the pits, in contravention of the foundations. Giunti, unsighted behind Ferrari group mate Mike Parkes, slammed into Beltoise’ automobile, sustaining deadly accidents.
Following the crash in January, Beltoise was banned from the season-opening F1 race at Kyalami in South Africa in March. He returned for the subsequent 5 races, till the FIA selected to impose an additional ban, ruling him out of the German, Austrian and Italian rounds in August and September. He returned for the ultimate two rounds of the season.
The next 12 months Beltoise scored the one victory of his profession, and the final for BRM, in soaking moist situations at Monaco. He retired from F1 after two extra years with the group.
Christian Danner, 1987
Zakspeed driver Christian Danner was blamed, and banned, for an enormous crash involving Ferrari’s Michele Alboreto throughout qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix in 1987. Danner was climbing in direction of Massenet after leaving the pits as Alboerto, on a flying lap, tried to move on his left. The pair made contact and Alboreto was launched into the boundaries.
Luckily the Ferrari driver was not solely unharmed however nicely sufficient to return to the monitor in his spare automobile. Danner, nonetheless, was thrown out of the occasion, a response even Alboreto felt was extreme.
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Nigel Mansell, 1989
Nigel Mansell earned himself a ban following a Portuguese Grand Prix so controversial a repeat right now would undoubtedly trigger a social media meltdown.
The Ferrari driver was proven the black flag for partaking reverse gear within the pits when he overshot his field. Mansell insisted he didn’t see the flag disqualifying him from the race as he hunted down Ayrton Senna in pursuit of victory.
Although Senna was locked in a championship struggle with group mate Alain Prost he remained as uncompromising as ever together with his rivals, and when Mansell made a bid for the within at flip one the McLaren swung in. Contact was made and each retired.
The FIA threw the ebook at Mansell for colliding with a rival when he shouldn’t even have been on the monitor any extra, banning him from the subsequent race in Spain.
Eddie Irvine, 1994
Eddie Irvine additionally didn’t endear himself to Senna when he un-lapped himself from the McLaren driver throughout his debut within the 1993 Japanese Grand Prix. Jordan stored Irvine on board for the next season, however he landed himself in scorching water once more when he was concerned in a four-car crash.
Martin Brundle had simply lapped Eric Bernard when his automobile faltered with a technical downside. Bernard backed off as Irvine bore down on him. In the meantime, Jos Verstappen was pulling out from behind Irvine to move him.
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Irvine ducked left to keep away from Bernard, tangled with Verstappen and the pair skittled into Bernard and Brundle. The latter suffered a whack on his crash helmet from Verstappen’s right-rear wheel.
All 4 survived, although Brundle sustained a concussion. Irvine was held chargeable for the collision, a view challenged by many who noticed it as a product of unlucky circumstances. But when his one-race ban appeared harsh to some, the FIA’s determination to triple it when Jordan appealed in opposition to the choice was stunning. Having solely began three F1 races so far, Irvine was compelled to sit down the subsequent three out.
Mika Hakkinen, 1994
The 1994 German Grand Prix started with one of the vital harmful first laps F1 has ever seen. Of the 26 starters, 11 did not make it so far as lap two, largely attributable to a pair of multi-car crashes.
The second of these, on the first nook, was triggered by Mika Hakkinen. Laborious to the within with three drivers to his left, Hakkinen squeezed too near David Coulthard and the pair made contact. Coulthard averted being taken out, however 5 others weren’t so fortunate.
Given what had occurred to Irvine, McLaren properly accepted Hakkinen’s one-race ban with out risking an extension.
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Michael Schumacher, 1994
The third driver to gather a ban in the course of the 1994 season was additionally the one who gained the championship – and it wouldn’t have been something like as shut if he hadn’t been instructed to overlook two rounds.
Michael Schumacher’s ban resulted partly from his personal misdemeanour and his group’s poor response to it, and likewise some sloppy work on the authorities’ half. It started when he repeatedly overtook pole-winning championship rival Damon Hill previous to the beginning of the British Grand Prix. Schumacher did so on each formation laps, because the preliminary begin was deserted.
Amid confusion over precisely what penalty had been utilized to Schumacher, together with his group making the questionable assumption that he was being given a post-race penalty, the Benetton driver was proven the black flag. Like Mansell 5 years earlier, Schumacher continued, although he pitted and served a 10-second stop-and-go penalty.
Afterwards the FIA World Motor Sport Council took a dim view of how each Benetton and the British Grand Prix stewards dealt with the matter. Each have been sanctioned – in Schumacher’s case, together with disqualification from the race, he was handed a two-race ban.
Jacques Villeneuve, 1997
One other case of a champion who was banned from a race, although in Jacques Villeneuve’s case it was quickly suspended, permitting him to race, although it was later upheld and the ban stood.
Villeneuve collected his ban throughout follow for the penultimate race of the season at Suzuka. Within the earlier spherical on the Nurburgring two weeks earlier he had did not decelerate sufficiently in response to yellow flags, his third such infringement of the 12 months. On Saturday in Japan, Villeneuve was one among 5 drivers who did not again off as they handed Verstappen’s stranded Tyrrell.
The Williams driver was the one one who was already on his third ‘strike’, and one other meant a direct ban. It was a catastrophe for his championship possibilities, handing rival Schumacher a valuable alternative to erase Villeneuve’s nine-point lead.
Williams appealed and Villeneuve was allowed to race within the meantime. His efforts to delay Schumacher failed, nonetheless, and when the ban was upheld Villeneuve knew he would head into the finale trailing his rival.
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Yuji Ide, 2006
Within the house of simply three years, Honda went from having a full works group and spin-off B-team to canning each. The latter, Tremendous Aguri, got here into existence in 2006 with an all-Japanese driver line-up.
Alongside the skilled Takuma Sato, Tremendous Aguri employed main Components Nippon (now Tremendous Components) racer Yuji Ide. His unfamiliarity with F1 venues made for a troublesome transition, nonetheless, and he was concerned in a collection of incidents over his first three weekends.
Then on the primary lap at Imola, Ide tried a extremely optimistic transfer on Christijan Albers within the Villeneuve right-hander which flipped the Midland right into a horrifying barrel-roll. The FIA determined it had seen sufficient and withdrew his superlicence.
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Romain Grosjean, 2012
Romain Grosjean didn’t endear himself to his rivals throughout his first full season of F1 in 2012. He tangled with Pastor Maldonado in Australia, Michael Schumacher in Malaysia and Monaco, Sergio Perez in Spain, Paul di Resta in Britain and Felipe Massa in Germany. However how far he was guilty for every of these incidents was a matter of debate – the stewards didn’t penalise him for any of them.
At Spa, nonetheless, Grosjean was unquestionably guilty for a monumental crash which took him and 4 others out of the race. Making an attempt to dam Lewis Hamilton as they approached La Supply, Grosjean compelled the McLaren onto the grass, which pushed his automobile into Fernando Alonso and the Saubers of Perez and Kamui Kobayashi.
This was clearly a critical incident which deserved a big penalty. Nonetheless the stewards made the controversial ruling that Grosjean’s actions have been particularly worthy of punishment as a result of he had not merely collided with different drivers, however “main championship contenders”, which they evidently thought of extra critical.
Grosjean was banned from the subsequent race at Monza. On account of the incident, in 2014 the FIA launched a brand new system underneath which drivers could also be banned in the event that they acquire 12 penalty factors on their licence.
Kevin Magnussen
Underneath the brand new penalty system a number of drivers got here near reaching the 12 factors wanted to set off an computerized ban. Daniil Kvyat reached 10 in 2017, although it grew to become immaterial as he misplaced his drive quickly afterwards.
Final 12 months Pierre Gasly was extraordinarily lucky to keep away from a ban as he was already on 10 penalty factors when he triggered a collision which took his group mate out of the Australian Grand Prix. The stewards took no motion, prompting accusations they didn’t want to set off a ban for a driver by penalising a minor incident.
Nonetheless final weekend Magnussen grew to become the primary driver to gather such a penalty – coincidentally, following a collision with Gasly. He has additionally been concerned in collisions with Alexander Albon, Logan Sargeant and Yuki Tsunoda earlier within the 12 months, all of which added to his penalty factors tally. An extra incident in Miami, the place he repeatedly left the monitor to forestall Lewis Hamilton overtaking him, contributed to his whole of 12.
And never forgetting…
Different drivers have been banned or compelled to overlook races underneath circumstances associated to their driving in F1 or different collection.
In some circumstances the mere truth they’d taken to the monitor was the problem at stake. Mario Andretti and Bobby Unser have been barred from competing within the 1968 Italian Grand Prix as a result of in addition they participated in a race within the USA the identical weekend. Hans Heyer was barred from the 1977 Austrian Grand Prix as a result of he had began the earlier race on the Hockenheimring illegally.
In 1978, many drivers blamed Riccardo Patrese for the accident which claimed the lifetime of Ronnie Peterson initially of the Italian Grand Prix. The authorities didn’t blame him, however when a gaggle of drivers refused to start out the subsequent race at Watkins Glen if he appeared on the grid, Patrese stepped apart, and returned for the ultimate race at Montreal.
Lastly in 2002 Sauber rookie Felipe Massa was given a 10-place grid penalty for colliding with Pedro de la Rosa. Because the penalty was particularly utilized to Massa for the subsequent race at Indianapolis, Sauber realised they might keep away from it in the event that they substituted him, so that they did: Massa skipped the race as Heinz-Harald Frentzen drove his automobile.
