Twice this season, in Saudi Arabia and Miami, Magnussen has acted as rear-gunner for his Haas team-mate Nico Hulkenberg in holding up rivals behind him – even when it has meant working large every now and then.
In Miami, his antics earned him three 10-second penalties for leaving the observe and gaining a bonus – in addition to penalty factors which have left him on the verge of a race ban.
The Dane was subsequently investigated, and cleared, of potential unsportsmanlike behaviour for what he did – though rivals like McLaren’s Andrea Stella felt his actions have been worthy of a ban.
As a part of the stewards’ rationalization in Miami for what Magnussen did, they steered there needs to be a possible change to the principles that might enable penalties to be escalated within the case of repeat offenders.
The stewards wrote: “Transferring ahead, the stewards might want to think about if, in acceptable conditions, particularly within the case of repeat infringements, the penalties to be utilized for every infringement have to be elevated to discourage situations similar to those who we discovered right now.
“That is one thing that we are going to elevate explicitly with the FIA and the stewarding staff.”
Motorsport.com has realized that, in response to the stewards’ request, the matter was mentioned within the staff supervisor’s assembly on the Imola Grand Prix to grasp if there was a consensus to get a rule change in place.
Kevin Magnussen, Haas VF-24
Photograph by: Steven Tee / Motorsport Photographs
It was agreed that it needs to be checked out, however not rushed in to drive in case it triggered unintended penalties.
As an alternative, the matter can be placed on the agenda for the following assembly of F1’s Sporting Advisory Committee which discusses rule adjustments to debate and consider such issues.
Within the meantime, it’s understood that the FIA stewards have been inspired to utilize the likelihood at hand out drive-through penalties, fairly than the usual 10-second time penalty, for conditions the place drivers have gained a place unfairly.
Talking at Imola earlier within the weekend, Magnussen felt a greater answer could be for race management to inform drivers to provide their positions again.
“The perfect factor could be for the FIA to inform us to provide again positions, after which the consequence for not doing that being harsh,” he defined.
“Like, actually harsh – so that you make it possible for that is being executed. As a result of I believe it firstly will get too sophisticated and likewise too massive a consequence for [that infraction]. You’ve got to have the ability to go away a bit little bit of room to go over the restrict after which come again from that.
“Whereas now, in the event that they decide it to be an unfair benefit and it is a drive-through penalty, I believe that is not good.”
It’s understood that such ordering of the reversal of positions is just not being thought-about.
