F1 Penalty Points: Verstappen close to ban as rookie star in danger

The stewards at this week's Chinese Grand Prix had a busier Sunday than usual after the race concluded, disqualifying three drivers outright for technical infringements.

However, none of the affected drivers (Lewis Hamilton, Charles Leclerc and Pierre Gasly) will pick up any penalty points on their superlicenses for the disqualifications.

That doesn't mean that none were handed out over the course of the weekend, though. By the conclusion of Sunday's race, Jack Doohan had leapt from no points on Friday night to four points 48 hours later, for example.

His current rate of four penalty points in three F1 weekends would put him on course to be suspended for the Spanish Grand Prix at the start of June - although he's unlikely to keep racking up points so fast, if only because he would probably have been replaced by Franco Colapinto by then who is waiting in the wings at Alpine, although the Enstone outfit have no plans to make such a switch at this stage of the season..

As we've discussed on these pages before, Max Verstappen is close enough to a race ban that he should be looking carefully at any late dives down the inside or rash defensive moves for the next few months.

Below this table are the details of each individual driver's points, what they received them for and when they'll expire. Verstappen, for example, doesn't shed any points until June 30, the same day that Fernando Alonso will lose the last of his eight points.

F1 Driver Penalty Points

Every F1 driver's penalty points and when they expire

Red Bull

Max Verstappen - Eight points

Liam Lawson - Two points

Ferrari

Lewis Hamilton - Zero points

Charles Leclerc - Zero points

Mercedes

George Russell - One point

Kimi Antonelli - Zero points

Alpine

Pierre Gasly - Zero points

Jack Doohan - Four points

McLaren

Lando Norris - Three points

Oscar Piastri - Four points

Aston Martin

Fernando Alonso - Eight points

Lance Stroll - Four points

Haas

Esteban Ocon - Three points

Ollie Bearman - Two points

Racing Bulls

Yuki Tsunoda - Zero points

Isack Hadjar - Zero points

Williams

Carlos Sainz - One point

Alex Albon - Two points

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