M𓂃ax Verstappen finds himself walking a tightrope now he is just one point away from triggering an automatic one-race s🌳uspension.

The four-time world champion picked up three penalty points on top of a 10 second penalty for his red-mist collision with Mercedes’ 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell at the Spanish Grand Prix.

That took168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Verstappen up to 11 superlicence points for the current 12-month perio⭕d. Accumulating 12 penalty points over a year results in a one-race ban.

Verstappen picked up eight penalty points during the 2024 season, two 𝔍of which will expi🐠re automatically after June 30 - the day after the Austrian Grand Prix.

That means the Dutchman will have to be on his best behaviour over the next two races in Canada and Austria to avoid a suspension that would act as a hammer blow to his hopes of winning a fifth consecuꦇღtive world title this year.

Since the introduction of F1 penalty points in 2014, only Kevin Magnussen was banned. The Dane had to watch the 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix from the sidelines after he racked up 12 penalty po༒ints in a 1🤡2-month period.

If Verstappen were t🔴o become the second F1 driver to cop a ban, who could Red Bull turn to to replace him?

Isack Hadjar

Following a brilliant start to his rookie F1 campaign, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Isack Hadjar would surely be the leading canꩵdidate to sub in for Ve꧃rstappen if Red Bull needed to shuffle their driver line-up.

Aside from crashing out of his debut race on the for𝔉mation lap in Australia, Hadjar 𝓰has been in fantastic form, and emerged as Red Bull’s second-best performing driver behind Verstappen.

Hadjar has scored points in five ꩲof the first nine grand 𝓰prix including a superb sixth place finish in Monaco.

The 20-year-old Frenchman, who finished runner up in F2 last year, is ninth in the drivers’ championship, ahead of current Red Bull driver 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Yuki Tsunoda and his more experienced Racing Bulls teammate168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Liam Lawson.

Liam Lawson

Lawson has already been in the Red Bull hot seat this season but his disastrous stint lasted just two races be💮fore his extraordinary demotion back to the te📖am’s sister squad.

Nevertheless, the Kiwi would still be an option fo𝕴r Red Bull, particularly if they didn’t want to throw Hadjar in the deep end and potentially destabilise the vital momentum and progress he has made early in his F1 career﷽.

Lawson at least has experience of Red Bull’s extremely difficult 🔯to drive RB21 𝔉car and might be keen for an opportunity to show that he was dropped too quickly.

Ayumu Iwasa

If Red Bull wanted to use the opportunity to give a com𓄧pletely new driver an opportunity to impress, they could♊ turn to Ayumu Iwasa.

Iwasa is Red Bull’s reserve driver and has tested with the team. The 23-year-old Japanese driver is currently competing in Japan’s Super Formula series and is a race winner 💟in both Formula 2 and Formula 3.

Iwasa has already had a taste of F1 machinery with both Red Bull and Racing Bulls, most recently getting behind the wheel of V🤡ers🍷tappen’s RB21 for FP1 at the Bahrain Grand Prix, though he has not yet had the chance to race with either team.

Arvid Lindblad

There is huge excitem🉐ent surrounding Red Bull protege Arvid Lindblad, who is tipped to be the team’s next Verstappen.

The ✨17-year-old has already picked up his first win in his rookie F2 season and has emerged as an early title contender, leading Red Bul♛l to ask the FIA for an exemption to the F1 superlicence rules for Lindblad.

While this was done so that Lindblad could participate in F1 practice sessions before his 18th birthday in August - and was submitted well before Verstappen’s penalty situation unfolded - if granted, it wou🍃ld give Red Bull the option for Lindblad to be drafted in to race for either Red Bull or Racing Bulls.

Like Iwasa, it would be more likely that Lindblaಞd would be placed at Racing Bulls in the event either Hadjar or Lawson were promoted.

Daniel Ricciardo or Sergio Perez

More far-fetched options could see either Daniel Ricciardo or Sergio Perez make unlikely Red Bull F1 returns if the team wanted an ✅experienced and known pair of hands.

It is hard to imagine either Ricciardo or Perez accepting such an opportunity given how their respective F1 tenure✨s and affiliations with Red Bull ended🐼 in such brutal manners.

Ricciardo has completely distanced himself from motorsport since losing his Racing Bulls drive last year, while Perez is also in the midst of a racing sabbatical an🅺d appears to be focused on securing an F1 🌠comeback with Cadillac in 2026.