Magnussen slams F1 Stewards for penalty call
Kevin Magnussen has described the five-second time penalty he received during the Russian Grand Prix as “bullshit﷽” and “stupid” but used his anger to fuel his late charge to stay in the points for Haas.
The Danish driver was given a five-second time penalty for going off track at Turn 2, having been fighting for position with Sergio Perez at the time, and was judged by the FIA Stewards to have gained an unfair advantage during t💦he race.
Kevin Magnussen has described the five-second time penalty he received during the Russian🌟 Grand Prix as “bullshit” and “stupid” but used his anger to fuel his late charge to stay in the points for Haas.
The Danish driver was given a five-second time penalty for going off track at Turn 2, having been fighting for position with Sergio Per♔ez at the time, and was judged by the FIA Stewards to have gained an unfair advantage durin🃏g the race.
The penalty duly dropped Magnussen from eighth place to ninth place in the final results behind Lando Norris but clung on to a points position by just over two seconds from Racing Point’s Lance Stroll in 11th place.
Magnussen is adamant he did not gain an advantage going off track and gave a critical response to the pena𝓡lty from the Stewards.
“I think I was hard done by today, no doubt about it. This ꩲis bullshit,” Magnussen said. “✅We have this Turn 2 which is a crap corner, it’s just stupid, just put gravel there or something.
“I’m not a safety expert and never will be, but I think the way it happened t𒁏oday was I missed that corner, went through a load of crap offline on the run off, lost a hell of a lot of time, and got penalised by my own fault.
“The FIA didn’t have to do anythin🐲g. it wasn’t black a🌞nd white, and yet they choose to give me a penalty.”
After being informed about the penalty by his Haas race engineer, Magussen says he gav🐎e his all to stay inside the points in the closing st🉐ages.
“I just had six꧃ of my best la🍃ps this weekend in a row,” he said. “I got told I had that penalty, they said we need everything for you now, they gave me maximum engine power, used way more than we should have.
“They timed it perfectly so I could use all my energy and on top of that I had to do six qualifying laps 𝓡and I absolutely nailed all of them. I obviously had the car to do it꧅ as well, everything was perfect for that scenario.”
The FIA Stewards explanation for the penalty states Magnussꦗen incorrectly went through the bollards after going off the track at Turn 2.
“The Stewards reviewed video evidence and the driver of car 20 left the track at Turn 2 and did not pass to the l🐻eft of both bollards as per the instructions in the Race Director’s event notes,” an FIA statement confirmedꦑ.
Magnussen has also been ܫgiven one penalty point which increases his total to four over the past 12 months.
