F1 Penalty Points: Red Bull star edges closer to race ban

The stewards at this weekend's Miami Grand Prix had a busy Saturday, dishing out penalties for multiple drivers during the sprint race.

Max Verstappen was handed a 10-second time penalty for an unsafe release into the path of Kimi Antonelli, demoting him down to last of the remaining runners, while Alex Albon and Ollie Bearman were also penalised after the race, dropping them out of the points.

However, none of those drivers picked up penalty points on their FIA superlicence, but Verstappen's former team-mate Liam Lawson did. Lawson was handed a five-second penalty for causing a collision with Fernando Alonso, and has also been handed a penalty point, edging him closer to a race ban.

Lawson now has six penalty points, with 12 over the course of 12 months resulting in an instant one-race ban, as happened to Kevin Magnussen last season.

As we've discussed on these pages before, Max Verstappen is close enough to a race ban that he should be looking carefully at any late dives down the inside or rash defensive moves for the next few months.

Below this table are the details of each individual driver's points, what they received them for and when they'll expire. Verstappen, for example, doesn't shed any points until June 30, the same day that Fernando Alonso will lose the last of his points.

F1 Driver Penalty Points

Every F1 driver's penalty points and when they expire

Red Bull

Max Verstappen - Eight points

Yuki Tsunoda - Zero points

Ferrari

Lewis Hamilton - Zero points

Charles Leclerc - Zero points

Mercedes

George Russell - One point

Kimi Antonelli - Zero points

Alpine

Pierre Gasly - Zero points

Jack Doohan - Four points

McLaren

Lando Norris - Three points

Oscar Piastri - Four points

Aston Martin

Fernando Alonso - Two points

Lance Stroll - Two points

Haas

Esteban Ocon - Three points

Ollie Bearman - Two points

Racing Bulls

Liam Lawson - Six points

Isack Hadjar - Zero points

Williams

Carlos Sainz - Three points

Alex Albon - Two points

Sauber

Nico Hulkenberg - Four points

Gabriel Bortoleto - Zero points

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