‘You can’t be proud’ – Guenther Steiner’s damning verdict of his former driver’s antics.
“As a driver, you can’t be proud if you ruin someone else’s race” Guenther Steiner says Kevin Magnussen “can’t be proud” of his controversial tactics in the Miami Sprint, and proposed an interesting punishment for such antics.
Michelle Foster
13 May 2024

As of this season the Formula 1 drivers now receive a 10-second penalty if they gain an advantage by going off track, up on last year’s five seconds.

However, in the wake of Magnussen’s tactics, which he also used at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix to thwart Yuki Tsunoda, Steiner has proposed that repeat offenders in one race receive a drive-through penalty. That, he argues, then takes them out of the mix and releases the other driver.

“Once you get the first ten seconds, it doesn’t matter whether you get another ten seconds. That’s why a drive-through penalty is definitely noticeable,” he said. “You then have to take this penalty within a few laps and then you’re gone and can’t cause any further trouble.”

‘Can’t be proud’;

https://www.planetf1.com/news/guenth...n-miami-antics


Kevin Magnussen antics “over the limit” as race ban looms
“When you are running off the track and taking the other car with you, it’s not particularly sporting."
10 May 2024
James Dielhenn
Crash.Net

Kevin Magnussen’s tactics at the F1 Miami Grand Prix have been criticised as “over the limit”. A penalty-laden weekend in Miami saw Haas driver Magnussen hit with four penalties in the sprint race alone, for his defending against Lewis Hamilton. But his blunt honesty about the tactics used to stop Hamilton - and the Mercedes driver’s response - caught the eye.

“Over the limit”;

https://www.crash.net/f1/news/104805...race-ban-looms


Chris Harris on F1: All Hail Kevin Magnussen, the Chaos King of Miami
07 May 2024.
Chris Harris
Motorsport.com

Lando Norris may have taken home his long-awaited first victory, but K-MAG made his presence known. K-MAG isn’t the Copenhagen street corner rap artist his nick-name suggests, but a pugnacious driver for the Haas team whose evangelical need to defend positions in F1 often leads him into trouble. And so it was in Saturday’s sprint race where he became embroiled in a heated dog-fight with Lewis Hamilton for the final point.

Hamilton’s Mercedes clearly had the ECU chip from a 2018 E63 S, because it wasn’t much faster than the sedan down the back straight, allowing K-MAG to render any DRS assistance useless. And so began one of those see-saw battles predicated on two cars with vastly varied levels of performance on different parts of the track. This continued for so many laps that we all but forgot Hamilton had been incredibly fortunate not to be penalized for understeering into a couple of Astons and ultimately ending Lando’s sprint race.

The television director clearly agreed—Haas’s small band of advertisers must have been whooping for joy as Verstappen and the fast crew were ignored in favor of Magnussen doing whatever was humanly possible, short of lobbing nails out of his cockpit, to keep Lewis behind him. Sprint race naysayers should at this point have admitted it was a far better spectacle than any free practice session

‘K-MAG’;

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/c...king/10607915/


The sad decline of Kevin Magnussen: Can Haas do better than F1 2024’s enforcer?
10 May 2024
Oliver Harden
PlanetF1.com

Just over a decade ago – in an F1 world before Max Verstappen, if such a thing can be believed – the esteemed driver coach Rob Wilson was asked a question. Which drivers, of the 22 full-timers on the 2014 grid, did he deem most likely to join the holy trinity of Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton in the years to come?

The names Wilson proposed, both clients of his at the time, may come as a surprise all these years on. The first? Valtteri Bottas, The second? Kevin Magnussen, who confirmed Wilson’s lofty expectations just weeks later by finishing on the podium in his first grand prix appearance for McLaren in Australia.

Where did it all go wrong? It is not difficult to hone in on that in the case of Magnussen, his development criminally stunted by the chaotic early years of his career when he was dropped by McLaren at the end of his debut season, let go by the team entirely (on his birthday, if you please) in 2015 and squeezed out of Renault after one year in 2016. By the time he finally washed up at Haas in 2017, it was already much too late for him to be the racing driver he really could have been.

‘Decline’;

https://www.planetf1.com/features/ke...4-decline-haas


Kevin Magnussen’s three-word responses with driver in serious danger of F1 race ban
06 May 2024
Michelle Foster
PlanetF1.com

Taking his job in protecting Nico Hulkenberg’s seventh place to the limit, and then over it, two of those penalties came when the Dane went off the track to keep Lewis Hamilton behind him. When all was said and done after the 19 laps he had 35 seconds worth of time penalties, three penalty points added to his Super Licence, and was facing a charge of unsportsmanlike behaviour.

Fulfilling the obligatory media commitments after the Grand Prix, Magnussen was asked for his view on the penalty: “I better not [say].” Told he clearly was not happy, he said: “No.” Asked if the penalty was incorrect: “Better not comment.”

He most definitely does not want to comment on Andrea Stella’s call for him to be banned for a weekend: “You’re right.” And does he feel clarification of the rules is needed? “Yeah.”

‘Responses’;

https://www.planetf1.com/news/kevin-...ami-gp-weekend


Does Magnussen deserve to be one penalty away from a race ban?
12th May 2024, 11:55
Written by Will Wood
RaceFans

What makes Magnussen’s situation all the more remarkable is that he began the year with a spotless superlicence. He avoided picking up a single point throughout the whole of 2023. The trouble began at the second round of the season in Saudi Arabia, when he squeezed Alexander Albon into the wall on the approach to turn four. Following new guidelines devised over the off-season, the stewards duly handed Magnussen a ten-second time penalty for the clash as well as three penalty points – one more than most collisions incurred last season.

Magnussen also received an additional 10-second penalty in the same race for leaving the track and gaining and advantage as he desperately fought to back the pack up to benefit team mate Nico Hulkenberg ahead but received no points for that second incident. He was brought in front of the stewards again in the fifth grand prix of the year in China after colliding with Yuki Tsunoda at turn six after the Safety Car restart.

But last weekend in Miami Magnussen found himself in constant trouble. During the sprint race he dropped out of DRS range of his team mate ahead when Hulkenberg missed the chicane just before the detection zone. As a result, Magnussen became the head of a train of cars and resorted to some questionable tactics in a bid to protect Hulkenberg from the likes of Lewis Hamilton and Tsunoda, running out of track limits several times to stem the tide.

‘For and Against’;

https://www.racefans.net/2024/05/12/...om-a-race-ban/


Kevin Magnussen: Hard But Fair Driving? Or Too Extreme?
May 8, 2024
Aaron Teasdale
World In Sport

Kevin Magnussen, a driver full of sheer grit and determination has proven to be a ferocious force on track. So far this season Kevin has shown to resort to the team game by supporting not only his team Haas but also his teammate; Nico Hülkenberg. To score points for the Amercian-based team. But playing the team game has also upset drivers around him due to the tactics the Danish driver resorts to. But is Magnussen’s driving style a boost that makes track action exciting? Or too extreme for the safety of the drivers on track.

‘Hard Or Extreme?’;

https://worldinsport.com/kevin-magnu...r-too-extreme/


FIA looking to bring in harsher penalties after Magnussen’s incidents in Miami
Kevin Magnussen amassed nearly a minute's worth of penalties throughout the Miami Grand Prix, sparking discussions about the need for harsher penalties
May 15, 2024
Caitlyn Gordon
FormulaNerds

‘FIA looking’;

https://www.formulanerds.com/news/fi...ents-in-miami/


Why Magnussen is not guaranteed a Haas contract extension
May 8, 2024
Jaden Diaz-Ndisang
Last Word On Sports

Only a few weeks ago, Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu defended Magnussen for his incident with Tsunoda in China. Komatsu argued that his driver was excessively punished for what should have been chalked off as a racing incident. No such defence came last weekend, though, with Kevin Magnussen receiving an unprecedented number of penalties in just two days.

The Danish driver’s antics in Miami are unlikely to have helped his chances. Indeed, The Race reports that Haas never asked Magnussen to defend Hamilton so aggressively. This is consistent with team radio messages during the Sprint, which did not see Haas call upon the Dane to engage in the extreme type of defence he first displayed in Jeddah.

‘Not guaranteed a Haas contract extension’;

https://lastwordonsports.com/motorsp...act-extension/