If you want to get into Formula 1, there are a few things you need to possess: an ounce of talent, a heap of cash and an FIA Super License. The first two are pretty self-explanatory, but that final piece is an important document that proves to the sport’s governing body that you know your way around one of the fastest race cars on the planet.
Every driver on the current grid is in possession of an FIA Super License, it acts as a record of a driver’s abilities, and also serves as a reminder of their misdemeanors on track. To keep track of any bad behavior on and off-track, the FIA can give drivers various penalty points for bad behavior – such as causing a collision with another racer, cutting corners or exceeding track limits during a race.
Each of these points remain on their Super License for 12 months and if they collect 12 of these points over the course of a year, they’re handed a one-race ban. So far, no driver on the current grid has been handed a race ban, but one is getting pretty close with eight points on their license.
But just how many drivers on the grid have points on their license and what have all these penalties been picked up for? Well, we trawled through the FIA’s sporting decisions from every race meet over the last year and uncovered all the penalty points sitting on all the super licenses in F1.
As it stands, just five current Formula 1 drivers don’t have a single point to their name: Lewis Hamilton, Oscar Piastri, Valtteri Bottas,, Nyck de Vries and Logan Sargeant. But of the 15 drivers that have got at least one point on their super licenses, what were these penalties handed out for? Click on through the following pages to find out.
