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Why Does Each Driver Have Their Penalty Points?

Posted on | by Katy Fairman
Posted on | by Katy Fairman

With a new F1 season underway, let’s look at how many penalty points each driver on the grid has in 2022 👀

WHAT ARE PENALTY POINTS?

Penalty points are handed to drivers if they do something that the FIA consider to be dangerous. This could be causing a collision, ignoring yellow flags, or even driving too fast under the safety car. When a driver receives a penalty point, they remain on their licence for a year before expiring. However, there is big trouble if you total up to 12 of these points over the space of a year. Simply put, you earn yourself a race ban.

This article will also be updated over the 2022 season, so be sure to bookmark it as your one-stop place for all penalty points news and updates. New penalty points will be highlighted in orange. 

Here is a breakdown on why each driver has their penalty points, and when they eventually expire!

No Penalty Points

Four Penalty Points

Austrian GP – Two Points
Expires: 10th July 2023
Reason: causing a collision with Perez at Turn 4 during the race.

United States GP – Two Points
Expires: 23rd October 2023
Reason: incident with Sainz at turn 1.

Two Penalty Points

Brazilian GP – Two Points
Expires: 13th November 2023
Reason: causing a collision with Lewis Hamilton during the race.

Two Penalty Points

Singapore GP – Two Points
Expires: 3rd October 2023
Reason: falling more than 10 car lengths of the Safety Car.

One Penalty Point

Japanese GP – One Point
Expires: 9th October 2023
Reason: leaving the track and gaining an advantage.

No Penalty Points

Three Penalty Point

Austrian GP – One Point
Expires: 10th July 2023
Reason: leaving the track without a justifiable reason multiple times.

Brazilian GP – Two Points
Expires: 13th November 2023
Reason: causing a collision with Charles Leclerc during the race.

Eight Penalty Points

Saudi Arabian GP – One Point 
Expires: 25th March 2023
Reason: impeding of Ocon during qualifying.

Miami GP – One Point 
Expires: 8th May 2023
Reason: leaving the track at Turn 12 gaining a lasting advantage.

Hungarian GP – Two Points
Expires: 31st July 2023
Reason: causing a collision with Lance Stroll during the race.

Mexican GP – Two Points
Expires: 30th October 2023
Reason: causing a collision with Yuki Tsunoda during the race.

Brazilian GP – Two Points
Expires: 13th November 2023
Reason: causing a collision with Kevin Magnussen during the race.

Six Penalty Points

Miami GP – Two Points
Expires: 8th May 2023
Reason: collision with Gasly in Turn 1.

Miami GP – One Point
Expires: 8th May 2023
Reason: left the track at Turn 14 gaining a lasting advantage.

Canadian GP – One Point
Expires: 19th June 2023
Reason: more than one change of direction to defend a position.

Brazilian GP – Two Points
Expires: 12th November 2023
Reason: pit straight incident with Ocon during Sprint.

Five Penalty Points

Bahrain GP – Two Points
Expires: 20th March 2023
Reason: collision with Schumacher in Turn 6.

Monaco GP – One Point
Expires: 29th May 2023
Reason: collision with Hamilton in Turn 1.

French GP – Two Points
Expires: 24th July 2023
Reason: collision with Tsunoda in Turn 8.

Ten Penalty Points

Spanish GP – Two Points
Expires: 22nd May 2023
Reason: collision with Stroll in Turn 1.

Austrian GP – Two Points
Expires: 10th July 2023
Reason: collision with Vettel in Turn 4.

Austrian GP – One Point
Expires: 10th July 2023
Reason: leaving the track without a justifiable reason multiple times.

Japanese GP – Two Points
Expires: 9th October 2023
Reason: speeding under Red Flag Conditions.

United States GP – Two Points
Expires: 23rd October 2023
Reason: fell more than 10 car lengths behind during the Safety Car period.

Mexican GP – One Point
Expires: 30th October 2023
Reason: leaving the track and gaining an advantage.

Four Penalty Points

British GP – Two Points
Expires: 3rd July 2023
Reason: collision with Gasly in Turn 3.

Italian GP- Two Points
Expires: 9th September 2023
Reason: failed to slow under yellow flags after Turn 5.

Two Penalty Points

Austrian GP – One Point
Expires: 10th July 2023
Reason: leaving the track without a justifiable reason multiple times.

Dutch GP – One Point
Expires: 4th September 2023
Reason: ignoring blue flags.

Eight Penalty Points

Australian GP – Two Points
Expires: 9th April 2023
Reason: collision between Latifi  during qualifying.

Australian GP – One Point
Expires: 10th April 2023
Reason: more than one change of direction to defend a position.

United States GP – Two Points
Expires: 23rd October 2023
Reason: moved in a manner which caused a collision with Car 14 between T11 and T12.

Brazilian GP – Three Points
Expires: 12th November 2023
Reason: dangerous manoeurve with Vettel during Sprint.

Seven Penalty Points

Saudi Arabian GP – Two Points 
Expires: 26th March 2023
Reason: collision with Stroll in Turn 1 of Lap 48.

Spanish GP – One Point 
Expires: 22nd May 2023
Reason: leaving the track without a justifiable reason multiple times.

Monaco GP – One Point
Expires: 29th May 2023
Reason: leaving the track at Turn 10 and gaining a lasting advantage.

Austrian GP – Two Points
Expires: 9th July 2023
Reason: forcing another driver off the track.

United States GP – One Point
Expires: 23rd October 2023
Reason: leaving the track at T12 and re-joined but retained its position.

Five Penalty Points

Azerbaijan  GP – One Point
Expires: 12th June 2023
Reason: ignoring blue flags during the race.

Singapore  GP – Two Points
Expires: 2nd October 2023
Reason: collision with Zhou at turn 5.

United States GP – Two Points
Expires: 23rd October 2023
Reason: collided with Schumacher at turn 12.

No Penalty Points

Four Penalty Points

Saudi Arabian GP – One Point 
Expires: 26th March 2023
Reason: overtaking Albon by braking late and leaving the track at Turn 1 thereby gaining a lasting advantage.

Austrian GP – One Point
Expires: 10th July 2023
Reason: leaving the track without a justifiable reason multiple times.

Austrian GP – One Point
Expires: 10th July 2023
Reason: leaving the track without a justifiable reason multiple times.

French GP – One Point
Expires: 24th July 2023
Reason: collision with Schumacher between Turn 11 and 12.

Three Penalty Points

Miami GP – Two Points
Expires: 8th May 2023
Reason: collision with Stroll in Turn 11.

Italian GP – One Point
Expires: 11th September 2023
Reason: left the track and gained an advantage in T2.

Three Penalty Points

United States GP – One Point
Expires: 23rd October 2023
Reason: leaving the track without a justifiable reason four times.

Abu Dhabi GP – Two Points
Expires: 20th November 2023
Reason: collision with Latifi during the race.

This article will be updated throughout 2022.

57 thoughts on “Why Does Each Driver Have Their Penalty Points?”

  • Tomo Tomov says:

    Guys this is great articlr but you should update the years as you were putting 2021 instead of 2020 and 20w2 instead of 2021.

    • Katy Fairman says:

      Thanks. These dates are correct. They are when the penalty points expire and are no longer on a driver’s licence.

  • Sean Everard says:

    Cool article, you’ve forgotten to update Mazepin to say ‘Two Penalty Points” just under his name though
    Gots to keep on top of Mazepin – Penalties are going to be the ONLY points he’s scoring this year I’m pretty sure! He’d be a shoo-in if the championship were based on those though!

  • Sean Everard says:

    Slight typo – it says ‘One penalty point’ under Mazepin’s name and then 2 penalty points are listed
    Cheers

  • Mika Hendrawan says:

    In Latifi’s case they should give thebpenalty points to his race engineer who told him to stay out 😁

  • therealbensz says:

    This is such an essential article to read! All the plastic fans demanding a race ban for one single collision (HAM v VER) need to see this.

    • RuadRauFlessa says:

      If premeditation can be proven then there is already precedence for a 2 or 3 race ban over a single incident.

      PS: Not saying it is the case.

  • Alessia says:

    How did Russell receive 3 points for his collision with Sainz during sprint but Hamilton only 2 for his collision with Max during the race that caused a 51G impact? Feels wrong to me, shouldn’t penalty points be handed out according to the dangerousness of the action?

    • John Beckman says:

      Russell only got one point for his collision with Sainz. And the stewards aren’t supposed to consider the consequences of an action only the action itself when investigating incidents and deciding what penalties to award. With Hamilton and Verstappen the incident was just Hamilton understeering into Max and Max’s impact was a consequence of that incident so Lewis was only penalized for causing the initial collision.

  • Eddie says:

    can any one tell be why Russel got 3 points hitting Sainz but Lewis only gets 2 for hitting max. what ever you think of the Lewis and max crash the amount of penitential points given out should be the same

    • dave says:

      try reading what it says. the three points were from last years race. the date shown is the date they expire. he got one point from this years race.

  • Jess says:

    How does Hamilton have less points added for that accident then George for a far less dangerous incident.

    • Leo Verrilli says:

      It is not about the level of danger in an incident, it is more about the fault of the driver and how bad their actions were.

      Edit: George got one point???

  • Jess says:

    How does Hamilton get less points for a far more dangerous incident the George that just seems unfair

      • Paul says:

        Look at the MV on board footage. He had 3/4 of the track but he STILL turned hard right. The on-board can not be denied. The ONLY reason LH got a penalty was because RB went off on one lobbying Masi and to say what they did about LH was just disgusting. I lost all respect for Horner from that point on.

    • Lord Lambert says:

      Hamilton should have received no points as he did nothing wrong. Max is the one that caused that collision.

  • Aruã Torigoe says:

    shouldn’t Seb’s 3 points from quali expire one day sooner than the 2 he got during the race?

  • Suzanne Minkels says:

    Hi there, Russell does have 7 penalty points however it states that he received three penalty points at Silverstone whilst he only received 1. Thought I would point this out!

  • SLOTURBO says:

    Yuki will surely get banned from a race in 2022. 8 points now, and he has 4 more races before any of them expire.

  • Winston Longtrotter says:

    Can someone also list official reprimands? The list of occasions where the driver got off completely is also interesting. How many times impeding during qualifying or FP with no point or reprimand? Nice study for consistency and circumstances that influence the outcome.

    • Michiel Bijlsma says:

      No, “we” don’t.
      Stupid n00b fanboys who have been watching F1 (or only Lewis Hamilton) via Netflix drive to survive do that.
      Real fans know that risk-taking and car performance are inversely proportional in top drivers. Bad car? Take more risk in order to try and finish higher than it normally can. Leclerc has explained so himself, last year. Verstappen has been in that situation in F1 since 2015 and until end of 2020, unlike Hamilton who got into the best car on the grid in his first two years in 2007 and 2008.

      • Paul says:

        You obviously know nothing about F1 as LH did NOT have the best car every year he won a championship. That is just incorrect.
        As for risk, MV wasn’t even close to LH in the chicane at Monza but he littlerally just drove over him and parked his car on LHs head. He was left with tyre marks on his crash helmet. MV… just like his father Joss … VERY dangerous driver and win at any cost.

        • Michiel Bijlsma says:

          “you know nothing about F1” followed by a completely inaccurate description of what happened in Monza:
          -they were within a car’s length of eachother in turn 1 and going to the apex of turn 2 simultaneously, not “wasn’t even close”
          -Verstappen had a choice of hitting the sausage kerb and damage himself or hitting Hamilton and damaging eachother. I understand why he chose the way he did, given their championship standings
          -no-one could have predicted that with the halo, Verstappen ‘s rear tyre would follow exactly the path remaining (destroying the too weak Mercedes roll bar in the process, the way it did across Hamilton’s helmet.
          -You write “He left” as if Verstappen did it deliberately. That means You know f-all about F1, n00b

          • Michiel Bijlsma says:

            Feel free to bring up the “Verstappen didn’t even check how Hamilton was doing” line now?
            The line that ignores how Hamilton tried to back out of the sand trap dangerously while Verstappen was still climbing out of the car on top and after, walking away from the accident?

        • Michiel Bijlsma says:

          I’ve been calling him Lulu since 2012 when he started whinging on twitter with confidential McLaren data in his tweets about how his team-mate Button got better treatment than him. This was well before Netflix Drive to Survive was even a marketing pitch.

      • Paul says:

        You obviously know nothing about F1 as LH did NOT have the best car every year he won a championship. That is just incorrect.
        As for risk, MV wasn’t even close to LH in the chicane at Monza but he littlerally just drove over him and parked his car on LHs head. He was left with tyre marks on his crash helmet. MV… just like his father Joss … VERY dangerous driver and win at any cost.

  • The Beef says:

    Max getting dinged twice in one race for 2 separate incidents. That surely doesn’t happen often. Would love some examples if anyone knows.

    • Roxanne Lyson says:

      There were three just in this list. Yuki for crossing the pit entry line and Checo for forcing Charles wide, both at Austria. Seb also got hit twice at Bahrain for two separate incidents.

      • ฬ๏ยtєг 🇺🇦 says:

        And it’s weird because Leclerc crossed the white line of the pit entry twice as well this year in Djedda, but didn’t get penalized for it where Tsunoda got 2 penalties for that in Austria. I mean I think it’s a bit ridiculous anyway, but that inconsistency is weird as the offense isn’t even a grey area that’s open for subjective interpretation.

  • Jakub Kozak says:

    There is a typo in Ocon’s points. It should be “Expires: 20th March 2023“. Not used to the fact of the new season, are you?

  • jose pablo machado says:

    Hamilton falto 1 punto por abandonar la pista y ganar una ventaja duradera en la vuelta 1 en Abu Dabhi 2021

  • pd154 says:

    Seems penalty points are perhaps award more harshly towards the rear of the pack. eg. Latifi penalized 2x
    with a 3 point penalty. for some reason a 3pt for ignoring yellow. Monaco, Saintz actually hit a car in qualifying under yellow (dbl waved also). He did not receive a penalty of any sort! Certainly can’t say it wasn’t avoidable, had he slowed when yellow came out he would not have spun trying to avoid.

  • Tjidde Nieuwenhuizen says:

    Will we ever see a race ban?

    Maybe with Stroll, Latifi, Yuki or Mick(who has zero). But the rest? I don’t think so even if they get 12 points. They will bend to rules to have them race. Because entertainment.

  • LaddyOLake says:

    I wonder why you get two points for the 10 car lengths behind a safety car thing. Is it really comparable to causing a collision? Am I missing something?

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