With the F1 2025 season about to kick off, we will look at the penalty points each driver has on their license.
Along with other penalties, drivers can receive points on their super license for causing incidents during a race weekend.
A driver can gather a maximum of twelve points on their Super License before encountering disciplinary action.
If a driver collects 12 penalty points within a 12-month span, they will be suspended from the next race.
This has only occurred once since the system was introduced, with Kevin Magnussen during the 2024 season. The Dane had to sit out the 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix after obtaining 12 penalty points on his license. It resulted in a race ban. Oliver Bearman replaced him.
8 penalty points
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso are currently the drivers on F1 2025 closest to facing a race ban. They have each gathered eight penalty points in the past 12 months.
The good news for Alonso is that three of his eight penalty points are set to expire later this month.
The Spaniard received these points for dangerous driving during the 2024 Australian Grand Prix. By the end of April, the 43-year-old will see another 3 points wiped from his license.
This will leave the Aston driver with 2 points, which will expire on June 30th, 2025.
Max Verstappen, on the other hand, will have to wait until June 30th, 2025, before 2 points will be taken off his license.
The Dutchman will have to be careful if he wants to avoid a race ban. Most of his penalty points last year were accumulated over the last stretch of races.
The 27-year-old added points to his license in Mexico, Brazil, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi.
4 penalty points
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri, Sauber’s Nico Hulkenberg, and Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll sit on 4 points each.
If he keeps it clean, Stroll will be down to two penalty points by April 21st, 2025. The Canadian will lose the points gathered for a collision with Daniel Ricciardo during the Chinese Grand Prix.
Hulkenberg collected points for causing a collision during the Austrian & Italian Grand Prix in 2024. His points will expire between the end of June and the beginning of September.
Oscar Piastri will have to wait until the end of the season for his 4 points to expire. The Australian had collisions with Liam Lawson (Sao Paulo) and Franco Colapinto (Abu Dhabi). Both incidents were charged with 2 points to his license.
3 penalty points
McLarens’s Lando Norris and Haas’s Esteban Ocon sit on three penalty points heading into the F1 2025 season.
Ocon will see his points expire in May. The first of the three for an unsafe release was earned during the sprint for the 2024 Miami Grand Prix.
The remaining two points on his license stem from a collision with then-teammate Pierre Gasly on the first lap of the 2024 Monaco Grand Prix.
Meanwhile, Norris obtained his three points for failing to slow for double-waved yellow flags during the 2024 Qatar Grand Prix. The Briton will thus have to wait until December 1st, 2025, for his points to expire.
2 penalty points
Williams’ Alex Albon will carry his two penalty points through most of the 2025 season, with his points expiring on December 1st. Albon obtained points for causing a collision with Kevin Magnussen during the 2024 Qatar Grand Prix.
Red Bull’s Liam Lawson and Haas’s Oliver Bearman will enter their first full F1 season with two penalty points to their name.
Bearman’s points will expire on November 2nd, 2025, while Lawson, like Albon, will have to wait until December 1st, 2025.
1 penalty point
Williams’ newcomer Carlos Sainz and Mercedes’ George Russell kept it mostly clean throughout the 2024 season as they each sit on one penalty point.
Sainz, who collided with Oscar Piastri in Miami, is set to clean his license by May 5th, 2025.
Russell, who failed to maintain a 10-car length distance behind the safety car in the 2024 Qatar GP, will have to wait until December 1st, 2025.
No penalty points
Only four drivers came out of the previous season without penalty points to their name. Among the small group to start the F1 2025 season without penalty points is the new Ferrari duo of Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc.
Pierre Gasly, who headed into the 2023 season with 10 penalty points and a looming race ban, and Yuki Tsunoda kept in clean to start the 2025 season without a penalty point to their license.
F1 2025 rookies, Antonelli, Bortoletto, Doohan and Hadjar start the season with a clean slate.
