How many penalty points does each F1 driver have? Who's closest to a race ban?

How many penalty points does each F1 driver have? Who's closest to a race ban?

 

 

 
Since 2014, F1 stewards award penalties alongside penalty points that accrue on a driver’s super licence.Should a driver obtain 12 penalty points over a 12-month period then they will be handed a race ban.Is this Mercedes’ best chance to win a race in 2022? | F1Video of Is this Mercedes' best chance to win a race in 2022? | F1Click to subscribeNever miss a video from Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get the latest reviews, interviews and moreVerstappen has seven points to his name, five away from a race ban.Here’s a full rundown of how many points each F1 driver has heading into this weekend’s French Grand Prix:Max Verstappen – 7Two of Verstappen’s penalty points are for his collision with Lewis Hamilton at the 2021 Italian Grand Prix.Related Hamilton or Verstappen? Who got the highest rating in F1’s new manager game The little-known rule that means Hamilton won’t drive in France first practiceHe then received two for ignoring double-waved yellow flags in Qatar last year, before picking up a further three in Saudi Arabia for two incidents with Hamilton.All these will expire by the end of the year so Verstappen could start 2023 on zero points should he remain incident-free. Pierre Gasly – 7Gasly also has seven to his name but five have been accrued this year.His first two will be removed in September, dating back to a collision with Fernando Alonso.Related Honda not closing door on possible F1 return in 2026 The exclusive F1 club Lewis Hamilton will join at the French GPThe Frenchman was handed two points for colliding with Lance Stroll in Spain and did 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 – 7Stroll 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).”4He also picked up a point for weaving whilst defending in Melbourne.Fernando Alonso – 6The two-time F1 champion got two points for colliding 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 Valtteri Bottas in Canada. Alex Albon – 6In just 11 races, 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 and then two for forcing Lando Norris off at the Red Bull Ring.”5Yuki Tsunoda – 6Two of Tsunoda’s points will expire in November after colliding with Stroll at the 2021 Brazilian GP.He also got two points for colliding with Vettel in Jeddah, while in 2022, he picked up another two for spinning teammate Gasly at Silverstone.Esteban Ocon – 4One of Ocon’s points will expire in September for colliding with Vettel at Monza.”6The other three came earlier this season – a collision with Schumacher in Bahrain, and aggressive defence against Hamilton in Monaco.Valtteri Bottas – 3Two 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 – 2The McLaren driver got one penalty point for impeding Ocon in Bahrain earlier this year.”7The second came in Miami for ‘gaining a lasting advantage’. Kevin Magnussen – 2Magnussen received two points for colliding with Stroll in Miami.Zhou Guanyu – 2Zhou picked up one in Jeddah for going off the track and gaining an advantage.His second came in Austria for exceeding track limits in the race.Sergio Perez – 1Perez’s single penalty point will expire in September.Lando Norris – 1Norris picked up a single penalty point for exceeding track limits in Austria.Sebastian Vettel – 1 Like Norris, Vettel received a penalty point for track limits at the Red Bull Ring.”8Nicholas Latifi – 1Latifi picked up a penalty point for ignoring blue flags at the 2022 Azerbaijan GP.Lewis Hamilton, George Russell, Carlos Sainz, Mick Schumacher, Charles Leclerc – 0  

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