Kevin Magnussen

Kevin Magnussen

Nation:	Denmark
Formula 1 world championship
Status:	active
Start number :	20th
First start:	2014 Australian Grand Prix
Constructors
2014–2015  McLaren  • 2016  Renault  • 2017–2020  Haas
statistics
World Cup balance:	World Cup ninth ( 2018 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 109 - - 2
World Cup points :	158
Podiums :	1
Leadership laps :	-
Status: Belgian Grand Prix, August 30, 2020

Kevin Magnussen (born October 5, 1992 in Roskilde ) is a Danish automobile racing driver . In 2012 and 2013 he started in Formula Renault 3.5 . He won this in 2013. He has been driving in Formula 1 since 2014 , in which he has been racing for Haas since 2017 .

His father is the former Formula 1 driver Jan Magnussen .

Career

Magnussen, who had come into contact with motorsport at an early age through his father's job , began his career in karting , where he was active until 2007. Among other things, he won the 2006 NEZ-ICA junior kart championship. In 2008 he switched to the single-seater racing and put his focus on the Danish Formula Ford , he decided with 11 wins from 15 races right away for himself. He also took part in several races in various formula series. In 2009 Magnussen was signed by Motopark Academy and finished seventh in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup . He was more successful in the northern European Formula Renault, in which he won the runner-up title behind his team-mate António Félix da Costa , who had dominated the season.

In 2010 Magnussen stayed at Motopark Academy and competed in the German Formula 3 Cup for the racing team. After starting the season with one win, he finished third overall with two more wins at the end of the season. He also took part for Motopark Academy on the third race weekend of the Formula 3 Euro Series as a replacement for Adrian Quaife-Hobbs , who had previously left the team. Magnussen managed to win his second race. At the end of the season he finished twelfth overall. In addition, Magnussen was accepted into the sponsorship program of the Formula 1 racing team McLaren in 2010 . 15 years earlier, his father Jan Magnussen made the leap into Formula 1 through the McLaren support program.

In 2011 Magnussen moved to Carlin in the British Formula 3 Championship . With seven wins, he finished the season in second place behind his teammate Felipe Nasr . In the title fight Magnussen lost to his rival with 237 to 318 points. In addition, Magnussen took part in five races of the 2011 FIA Formula 3 Trophy . He was not eligible for points and third place was his best result.

In 2012 Magnussen competed for Carlin in the Formula Renault 3.5 . He won a race at Spa-Francorchamps and finished the season in seventh place overall. Magnussen also carried out work in the simulator and Formula 1 test drives for McLaren. In 2013 Magnussen switched to DAMS within the Formula Renault 3.5 . Magnussen won in Alcañiz , Spa-Francorchamps, Le Castellet and twice in Barcelona . He was on the podium in 13 of 17 races. He decided the championship with 274 points for himself. So he prevailed against Stoffel Vandoorne , who was like Magnussen in the promotional squad of McLaren and had scored 214 points. Within the team, he decided the duel against Norman Nato , whose best results were fifth place, clearly for himself.

In 2014 , Magnussen received a Formula 1 cockpit at McLaren. He chose # 20 as his Formula 1 starting number. Magnussen had won the Formula Renault 3.5 drivers' championship with this number 20 the year before. In his debut race in Australia , he finished second, benefiting from the disqualification of the original runner-up Daniel Ricciardo . Magnussen thus became the first Dane on the Formula 1 podium. In the further course of the season he only made it into the top five in fifth at the Russian Grand Prix . While his team-mate Jenson Button finished eighth with 126 points, Magnussen achieved eleventh overall with 55 points. In 2015 Magnussen lost his McLaren cockpit to Fernando Alonso . He stayed with the team as a test driver. As a replacement for the injured Alonso, Magnussen took part in the season opener in Australia . He already had a technical defect on the lap on the grid and therefore did not start the race. Magnussen turned down a commitment to Andretti Autosport for the IndyCar Series 2015 in Australia . In September of that year, Magnussen broke his hand in a bicycle accident. At the beginning of November, Magnussen also completed test drives in an LMP1 car for the Porsche team .

Magnussen in the Renault

In 2016 Magnussen moved within Formula 1 to the Renault Sport F1 Team , which emerged from Lotus . He replaced Pastor Maldonado there and became a teammate of Jolyon Palmer . At the Russian Grand Prix he scored seventh the first points for Renault after their return to Formula 1. It was also the best result of the season for Renault. At the Belgian Grand Prix he had a serious accident on the sixth lap exit of the Raidillon and was taken to the hospital in Verviers with a cut on his left ankle and a bruise . He finished the season in 16th place overall and internally won with seven to one point against Palmer.

In 2017 Magnussen joined Haas after just one season at Renault . He received a multi-year contract with the racing team. At the end of the season he finished 14th overall with 19 points. In the Formula 1 World Championship in 2018 Magnussen stayed with Haas. At the end of the season he was in ninth place in the drivers' standings with 56 points. In 2019 , Magnussen completed his third season for Haas. He finished the year in 16th place overall with 20 points. In 2020 he will continue to drive for the team. After the seventh race, he is currently 17th in the drivers' championship with one point.

statistics

Career stations

2008: Danish Formula Ford (champion) 2008: Formula Ford NEZ (4th place) 2008: Benelux Formula Ford (19th place) 2008: ADAC Formula Masters (12th place) 2008: Portuguese Formula Renault , winter series (10th place) 2009: Northern European Formula Renault (2nd place) 2009: Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup (7th place)

2010 : German Formula 3 (3rd place) 2010 : Formula 3 Euro Series (12th place) 2011 : British Formula 3 (2nd place) 2012 : Formula Renault 3.5 (7th place) 2012 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2013 : Formula Renault 3.5 (champion) 2013 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2014 : Formula 1 (11th place)

2015 : Formula 1 2016 : Formula 1 (16th place) 2017 : Formula 1 (14th place) 2018 : Formula 1 (9th place) 2019 : Formula 1 (16th place) 2020 : Formula 1

Individual results in Formula Renault 3.5

year	team	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	Points	rank
2012	Carlin	ALC		MON	SPA		ONLY		MOS		SIL		HUN		LEC		CAT		106	7th
		2	DNF	DNF	21 *	1	5	8th	16 *	10	DNF	DNF	2	23 *	6th	24 *	5	4th
2013	DAMS	MNZ		ALC		MON	SPA		MOS		SPI		HUN		LEC		CAT		131	1.
		2	2	1	9	4th	1	3	11	2	3	3	2	2	DSQ	1	1	1

Statistics in the Formula 1 World Championship

These statistics include all the driver's participations in the Formula 1 World Championship .

general overview

Status: Belgian Grand Prix, August 30, 2020

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
2014	McLaren Mercedes	McLaren MP4-29	Mercedes 1.6 V6 Turbo	19th	-	1	-	-	-	55	11.
2015	McLaren Honda	McLaren MP4-30	Honda 1.6 V6 Turbo	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2016	Renault Sport F1 Team	Renault RS16	Renault 1.6 V6 Turbo	21st	-	-	-	-	-	7th	16.
2017	Haas F1 team	Haas VF-17	Ferrari 1.6 V6 Turbo	20th	-	-	-	-	-	19th	14th
2018	Haas F1 team	Haas VF-18	Ferrari 1.6 V6 Turbo	21st	-	-	-	-	1	56	9.
2019	Haas F1 team	Haas VF-19	Ferrari 1.6 V6 Turbo	21st	-	-	-	-	1	20th	16.
2020	Haas F1 team	Haas VF-20	Ferrari 1.6 V6 Turbo	7th	-	-	-	-	-	1	17th
total				109	-	1	-	-	2	158

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24
2014
	2	9	DNF	13	12	10	9	7th	7th	9	12	12	10	10	14th	5	8th	9	11
2015
	DNS												INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ
2016
	12	11	17th	7th	15th	DNF	16	14th	14th	17 *	15th	16	DNF	17th	10	DNF	14th	12	17th	14th	DNF
2017
	DNF	8th	DNF	13	14th	10	12	7th	DNF	12	11	15th	11	DNF	12	8th	16	8th	DNF	13
2018
	DNF	5	10	13	6th	13	13	6th	5	9	11	7th	8th	16	18th	8th	DNF	DSQ	15th	9	10
2019
	6th	13	13	13	7th	14th	17th	17th	19th	DNF	8th	13	12	DNF	17th	9	15th	15th	18 *	11	14th
2020
	DNF	12	10	DNF	DNF	15th	17th

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Web links

Commons : Kevin Magnussen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of Kevin Magnussen
• Career statistics of Kevin Magnussen (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "VW: With a double tour to Valencia" (Motorsport-Total.com on May 20, 2010)
2. ^ "McLaren and Magnussen come full circle" (bbc.co.uk on March 19, 2010)
3. ↑ “Magnussen joins Carlin for British F3” (autosport.com on December 8, 2010)
4. ^ “Kevin Magnussen moves to FR3.5 with Carlin for 2012” (autosport.com on October 20, 2011)
5. ↑ “Kevin Magnussen will drive for McLaren in young driver F1 test as he gets extended role” (autosport.com on February 14, 2012)
6. ↑ Michael Höller: "WS by Renault - DAMS 2013 with Magnussen and Nato". Pic switches to AV Racing. Motorsport-Magazin.com, December 3, 2012, accessed January 23, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Stephan Heublein: "Formula 1 - McLaren confirms Magnussen for 2014". Invest in the future. Motorsport-Magazin.com, November 14, 2013, accessed November 14, 2013 . 
8. ↑ Philipp Schajer: "Formula 1 - Magnussen chooses start number 20". Success number. Motorsport-Magazin.com, January 8, 2014, accessed January 10, 2014 . 
9. ↑ Kerstin Hasenbichler: "Formula 1 - McLaren confirms Button & Alonso". British-Spanish alliance. otorsport-Magazin.com, December 11, 2014, accessed December 11, 2014 . 
10. ↑ Sven Haidinger: McLaren officially confirms: Fernando Alonso is missing in Australia. Motorsport-Total.com, March 3, 2015, accessed March 3, 2015 . 
11. ↑ Mario Fritzsche, Dieter Rencken: Kevin Magnussen was about to make an IndyCar deal with Andretti. Motorsport-Total.com, March 28, 2015, accessed March 29, 2015 . 
12. ↑ Gerald Dirnbeck: Kevin Magnussen is missing in Singapore: Hand broken. Motorsport-Total.com, September 15, 2015, accessed on September 27, 2015 . 
13. ↑ Ex-F1 racer Kevin Magnussen raves about Porsche LMP1 debut test. autosport.com, November 10, 2015, accessed November 15, 2015 . 
14. ↑ Lawrence Barretto: Renault launches its 2016 Formula 1 car, the RS16. autosport.com, February 3, 2016, accessed February 3, 2016 . 
15. ^ Roman Wittemeier: Kevin Magnussen gave the all-clear: Monza start not in danger. Motorsport-Total.com, August 28, 2016, accessed August 28, 2016 . 
16. ↑ Lawrence Barretto: Haas confirms Magnussen and Grosjean for 2017 F1 seats. autosport.com, November 11, 2016, accessed November 12, 2016 .