Magnussen suggests alternate F1 race ban system

Kevin Magnussen has suggested F1 should adopt a new system to deal with race bans after his Azerbaijan suspension. 

Magnussen became the first F1 driver in 12 years to be banned after he accumulated 12 penalty points on his super licence following an incident with Pierre Gasly in the Italian GP, leading to his ban from the Baku race. 

The Danish driver picked up seven of his points in Miami for a variety of incidents in the sprint race and a collision with Logan Sargeant, but feels the system could be tweaked to punish "extraordinary dangerous driving" that could aid consistency in the decision-making of the stewards.

“The penalty points thing is a slightly strange one,” Magnussen told media including RacingNews365.

“Maybe it would be better to kind of give race bans for extraordinarily dangerous driving, or for a specific incident, and not accumulate.

“It can get into situations where you get punished harder than others.

“In my case, I came into the season with zero points, accumulated all of them, and then I knew the rest of the season that none of these points were running out.

“So I actually got punished harder because of not having had any points last year. So in a way, I should have got some points last year.

“I just think it’s a very complex thing. So for me to sit here and say we should do this, this and this, and that would be the right way forward, is very difficult.”