P1racenews AI automatic summary:
Max Verstappen finds himself the closest F1 driver to receiving a race ban.
Max Verstappen was warned that accumulating more penalty points in F1 could result in a race ban after the incident with George Russell in the Spanish GP. He currently has 9 penalty points, with 12 triggering an automatic one-race ban. Verstappen raced under this pressure in the Canadian and Austrian GPs without receiving further penalties. However, his vulnerability under pressure, as shown in previous races, could lead to a ban according to 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve. Villeneuve believes Verstappen’s tendency to become over-aggressive when seeing red is his “sore spot” that could jeopardize his future in the sport. George Russell is aware of this weakness, but Villeneuve emphasized that Russell is not playing on the same level as Verstappen.
