At Singapore subsequent week Kevin Magnussen will turn out to be the tenth driver within the historical past of the world championship to be banned from a spherical as a consequence of 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 System 1 races in 1971 for his position in a horrible crash which claimed the lifetime of Ignazio Giunti through the 1,000 kilometres of Buenos Aires sportscar race. When his Matra ran out of gas on the ultimate nook Beltoise started pushing his automobile the brief distance to the pits, in contravention of the principles. Giunti, unsighted behind Ferrari crew 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 following 5 races, till the FIA selected to impose an extra 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 circumstances at Monaco. He retired from F1 after two extra years with the crew.
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 the direction of Massenet after leaving the pits as Alboerto, on a flying lap, tried to cross on his left. The pair made contact and Alboreto was launched into the limitations.
Thankfully the Ferrari driver was not solely unharmed however nicely sufficient to return to the observe 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 immediately 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 crew 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 e-book at Mansell for colliding with a rival when he shouldn’t even have been on the observe any extra, banning him from the following 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 saved Irvine on board for the next season, however he landed himself in sizzling 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 cross 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 accountable 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 pressured to sit down the following three out.
Mika Hakkinen, 1994
The 1994 German Grand Prix started with one of the crucial harmful first laps F1 has ever seen. Of the 26 starters, 11 didn’t make it so far as lap two, largely as a consequence of a pair of multi-car crashes.
The second of these, on the first nook, was triggered by Mika Hakkinen. Onerous to the within with three drivers to his left, Hakkinen squeezed too near David Coulthard and the pair made contact. Coulthard prevented being taken out, however 5 others weren’t so fortunate.
Given what had occurred to Irvine, McLaren correctly 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 through 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 informed to overlook two rounds.
Michael Schumacher’s ban resulted partly from his personal misdemeanour and his crew’s poor response to it, and in addition 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 crew 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 apply for the penultimate race of the season at Suzuka. Within the earlier spherical on the Nurburgring two weeks earlier he had didn’t decelerate sufficiently in response to yellow flags, his third such infringement of the 12 months. On Saturday in Japan, Villeneuve was considered one of 5 drivers who didn’t 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 treasured 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 area of simply three years, Honda went from having a full works crew 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 System Nippon (now Tremendous System) 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 responsible 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 responsible 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 pressured the McLaren onto the grass, which pushed his automobile into Fernando Alonso and the Saubers of Perez and Kamui Kobayashi.
This was clearly a severe 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 severe.
Grosjean was banned from the following race at Monza. Because of the incident, in 2014 the FIA launched a brand new system underneath which drivers could also be banned in the event that they accumulate 12 penalty factors on their licence.
Kevin Magnussen
Below 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 prompted a collision which took his crew 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 additional incident in Miami, the place he repeatedly left the observe to stop Lewis Hamilton overtaking him, contributed to his whole of 12.
And never forgetting…
Different drivers have been banned or pressured to overlook races underneath circumstances associated to their driving in F1 or different collection.
In some circumstances the mere reality that they had taken to the observe was the difficulty at stake. Mario Andretti and Bobby Unser have been barred from competing within the 1968 Italian Grand Prix as a result of additionally 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 bunch of drivers refused to begin the following 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 following 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.
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