{"id":15299,"date":"2025-06-02T21:04:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/formula-1-what-are-penalty-points-and-how-do-they-work\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T21:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:04:23","slug":"formula-1-what-are-penalty-points-and-how-do-they-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/formula-1-what-are-penalty-points-and-how-do-they-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1: What are penalty points and how do they work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Formula 1 drivers will receive a one-race suspension if they pick up 12 penalty points on their super licence in a 12-month period.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four-time world champion Max Verstappen will receive a one-race ban, should he pick up any penalty points in his next two races.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Dutchman, 27, was handed three penalty points after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/formula1\/articles\/cgkd2675746o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">appearing to deliberately crash into Mercedes&#8217; George Russell<\/a> during the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Verstappen received a 10-second penalty for the collision but was later given three penalty points on his Federation Internationale de l&#8217;Automobile (FIA) super licence, taking him to 11 penalty points for the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Verstappen has two points which expire on 30 June, meaning should he avoid any further points at this month&#8217;s Canadian and Austrian Grands Prix, he would not reach the threshold for a suspension unless he receives three or more points before 27 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Penalty points are given for a range of offences, with points handed out based on the severity of the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These include causing collisions, driving too slowly in pit lanes and overtaking  while a red flag is being waved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Once drivers hit 12 points, they are banned for one race and all points are removed once their ban is served.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/formula1\/articles\/cr4z573e2z4o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formula 1 drivers will receive a one-race suspension if they pick up 12 penalty points on their super licence in a 12-month period. Four-time world champion Max Verstappen will receive a one-race ban, should he pick up any penalty points in his next two races. The Dutchman, 27, was handed three penalty points after appearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15301,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15299\/revisions\/15301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}