Under the Formula 1 regulations stewards are permitted to hand out penalty points to drivers in conjunction with the respective offence committed. Should a driver amass 12 penalty points across a 12-month period then they will be suspended from the following event. No-one has hit the mark as yet, though in recent years Romain Grosjean and Daniil Kvyat have come close, while in Formula 2 this season Mahaveer Raghunathan fell foul of the limit and was banned from Austria. Fortunately for the field of 20 it has been a relatively quiet half season to the extent that only one driver – Max Verstappen – is more than halfway towards a ban. Verstappen is on seven penalty points though...
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