How did Max Verstsappen stay at a step away from being suspended in F1?
The sanction he suffered in the GP of Spain when he collided to George Russell, for which he received three penalty points in his superlicnce, left the tetra -champion only one to be stopped by a date.
The arterra and brought maneuver he made against George Russell in the GP of Spain left Max Verstappen against the strings. The Dutch lost his bockals in the final part of the Catalan race, when in the last call to boxes (after the entry of the security car), in Red Bull they placed hard tires. That, added to the fact that it was surpassed by Charles Leclerc in the restart, that the tight maneuver with Monegasco forced him to go outside the track, that trajectory made to the team to ask him to return the place to the English of Mercedes … All in just a couple of turns. And there, madness: When he ran to let the pilot from the silver arrows, he had it at the same time, accelerated and hit him an autazo. Result: the sports commissioners penalized him with ten seconds and three points in his superlicnce.
So far, one more sanction. Of course, if it weren’t because in the Scoring system, the Dutch reached 11 points and remained to be sanctioned by a date. The regulations set that runners can receive sanction points for violations of the rules and if they accumulate 12 in a period of 12 months, they are suspended by a race. The exact year of receiving a sanction, it is automatically cleaned. Does anyone believe that the tetracampeon will reach the dozen and a Grand Prix will be lost? Difficult, but … now, how did Max Verstappen get to that limit? And, most importantly: when do you start recovering points?
6/30/2024 The Red Bull pilot was found guilty by the commissioners to cause a collision with Lando Norris during the Austrian GP. The incident occurred in the 64th round and in the third curve. The two suffered punctures. Max received ten seconds and two points in his superlicnce.
10/27/2024 same protagonists, on that occasion, in the GP of Mexico. Verstappen crossed the track limit with the four wheels and forced Norris outside and the FIA commissioners for two other points.
11/2/2024 during the Sprint race of the San Pablo GP, Verstappen did not respect the green signal that enabled the track after the end of the virtual security period period. For accelerating before it was penalized with a point.
11/30/2025 during the Qatar GP classificationand already consecrated tetracampeon, he unnecessarily slowly handled during the classification with the intention of opening a space during the last attempted attempted Q3. That complicated Russell. Result: a point and they took the pole position he had achieved.
12/8/24 in the ABU Dhabi GP start, Verstappen rammed the McLaren of Oscar Pastri and the commissioners applied two points (in addition to ten seconds).
Finally, the maneuver with the Mercedes pilot in Barcelona with which he reached the 11th. Verstappen must be taken care of in the next two races (Canada and Austria), because if he is sanctioned with points of his superícence, a race will be lost again. On 6/30, the day after the competition at the Red Bull Ring, he will recover the two he received in Austria 2024 and will be a little more loving. From the equipment of the energy drinks they already lowered a clear message: “Now you should not do anything wrong for the next two race weekends and, of course, it will be told that you do nothing precipitated. It would be a disaster if I could not be a starter in Austria. But we do not expect that to happen, because Max does not usually do something wrong in all the races, ”said Helmut Marko, the sports advisor of the team.
