Like Vettel, Kimi Raikkonen also earned penalty points over the Austrian Grand Prix weekend just gone, receiving two for his crash with Vettel himself on the last lap of the race, to go with the four he’d had previously – although Raikkonen’s point for being out of position at the start of the 2020 Hungarian Grand Prix is set to expire on July 19, leaving him with his one for a pit lane error in Mugello, and two for crashing with George Russell at the 2020 Eifel Grand Prix.
But his shaky start to life with Aston Martin was underlined by earning a full five points in his first weekend with the team – three for failing to slow under double yellows in qualifying, and two for his crash with Esteban Ocon in the race – while blocking Alpine’s Fernando Alonso in qualifying last time out at the Austrian Grand Prix saw him handed one. Sebastian Vettel was penalty points-free heading into 2021. OPINION: George Russell is destined for the top – just ask Alonso Sebastian Vettel – 6 points There are only two misdemeanours on George Russell’s slate currently, but in the eyes of the stewards, they’re biggies, namely failing to slow sufficiently under double yellow flags at both the British and Turkish Grands Prix – each offence carrying three penalty points. That moved him onto eight points, to go with the four he had already – one for ignoring blue flags at the 2020 Spanish Grand Prix, one for crashing with Kimi Raikkonen in FP2 at Mugello and two for overtaking under the Safety Car at Imola this year. READ MORE: ‘He put himself in the gravel’ – Norris hits out at Perez penalty after having to settle for P3īut crucially, Norris has since gone back down to eight before even getting back into the cockpit of his McLaren, his two points for overtaking Pierre Gasly under yellow flags in FP1 at the 2020 Styrian Grand Prix having expired over the weekend.Īfter being left angry for being put in the gravel by Norris at the Austrian Grand Prix, Sergio Perez then received a full four penalty points for doing exactly the same thing, twice, to Charles Leclerc. Much was made of the fact that Norris was one race away from a race ban after climbing to 10 penalty points after the Austrian Grand Prix, thanks to the two he earned for being judged to have forced Sergio Perez off track during the race. Let’s start with Lando ‘Bad Boy’ Norris, as no one in the paddock refers to him.
So we thought it would be a good time to tot up the number of penalty points the drivers have amassed in the past 12 months, to see which of them are skirting a ban – an automatic one-race ban coming with 12 penalty points, of course – and which drivers are in the stewards' good books. The stewards at the Austrian Grand Prix had something of a busy weekend, with a host of drivers handed penalties for infractions ranging from speeding in the pit lane to forcing other drivers off the track.