Stewards plan to grill FIA over rule-change after Kevin Magnussen enrages rivals

🥂Demands for a tweak to regulations to stop Kevin Magnusse✅n's tactics

Kevin Magnussen (DEN) Haas VF-24. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 6, Miami Grand Prix, Miami, Florida, USA, Sprint
Kevin Magnussen (DEN) Haas VF-24. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 6, Miami Grand Prix, Miami,…

Stewards plan to ask the FIA about a rule-change after Kevin Magnussen’s controversial tactics in the sprint race at the F1 Miami Grand Prix.

Magnussen intentionally held up rivals in the midfield by regularly driving ౠoff-track, which cost him time but allowed him to mainta💃in position.

Haas driver Magnussen was hit with three separate 10-second penalties for his d꧑riving, and later admitted his goal was to help Haas teammate Nico Hulkenberg secure P7.

Lewis Hamilton was stuck in a race🎀-long scrap w🤡ith Magnussen.

Magnussen was cleared of unsportsmanlike beh𝐆aviour by the stewards.

But the stewards’ report said: "Moving forward, the stewards will need to consider if, in appropriate situations, esp🎶ecially in the case of repeat infringements, the penalties to be appli✃ed for each infringement need to be increased to discourage scenarios such as those that we found today.

"This is something that we will r💫aise explicitly wit💯h the FIA and the stewarding team."

Magnussen could be🌞 described as a repeat offender after using similar ta𝔉ctics in Saudi Arabia.

McLaren team princi🐓pal Andrea Stella was critical of Magnussen.

"We have a case of behaviour being intentional♔, in terms of damaging another competitor.

“And this behaviour is 💯perpetuated within the same race and repeate🍰d over the same season.

"How can penalties be accumulative? They should be exponenti﷽al. It is not five plus five plus five equals 15.

"F🐠ive plus five plus five equals… maybe you need to spend a weekend at home, with your family, and reflect on your sportsmanship, and then go back!

"It is com♈pletely unacceptable. It makes no sense from 𒁃a sportsmanship point of view and this should be addressed immediately.

"If you are out of the points,🎐 getting 20 seconds or whatever [time penalty] doesn't make any difference.

“But for the competitors you have damage🅠d, you have put them out of their rac𓆏e in a deliberate, perpetuated and repeated way."

Stella backed a rule-change to prevent Magnussen’s tact𒐪ics bein♛g used again.

"I am sure the FIA will look into that and will 𝐆come to a sensible proposal for the Sporting Advisory Committee to evaluate,” he said.

“Hopefu💛lly these will soon become rules or guidelines that the stewards can apply."

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