Having already given Max Verstappen a 10-second time penalty at the Spanish Grand Prix, the FIA stewards have taken further action. And said action is the move to add three further penalty points to Verstappen‘s FIA Super Licence,

Max Verstappen faces an uphill battle to avoid a race ban as he’ll need to navigate a clean Canadian and Austrian Grands Prix

If a driver reaches 12 penalty points on their FIA Super License over a single calendar year period, they are hit with a one-race penalty ban. Last season Kevin Magnussen missed the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after accumulating enough penalty points to trigger the one-race ban at the previous race, the Italian Grand Prix.