Magnussen was handed three 10-second time additions penalties for repeatedly leaving the observe and gaining benefits, plus one five-second penalty and a black-and-white warning flag for extra observe limits abuse through the 19-lap contest across the Arduous Rock Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
His actions all happened towards Hamilton whereas they ran adrift of Nico Hulkenberg, who went on to take two factors for Haas with seventh place as Hamilton was delayed by Magnussen’s actions.
These included reducing the observe’s tight chicane and twice going off observe whereas combating Hamilton carefully – at one level barging into the Mercedes’ right-hand facet.
“All of the penalties have been effectively deserved,” Magnussen instructed Sky Sports activities F1 post-race. “Little question about it.
“However I needed to play the sport once more. I used to be in an excellent place behind Nico there. At the start of the race I gained so much positions, was up in P8 and defending effectively from Lewis as a result of I had DRS from Nico and had good tempo.
“However then Nico lower the chicane and I misplaced the DRS [on lap six in an incident that was not investigated].
“Nico may’ve on condition that again to present me the DRS to guard as a result of then we’d’ve simply been P7-P8.
“As a substitute, I used to be actually weak to Lewis [and we] began combating like loopy.”
Kevin Magnussen, Haas VF-24 Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes F1 W15
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Magnussen additionally stated he needed to drive “to create the hole like I did in Jeddah” – the place he was twice penalised throughout his efforts to carry up the automobiles of Haas’s midfield rivals as Hulkenberg escaped forward to complete tenth.
“I began utilizing these silly techniques, which I don’t like doing,” he added. “However, on the finish of the day, I did my job as a crew participant.
“Nico scored his factors as a result of I acquired that hole for him. Lewis and Tsunoda couldn’t catch him. Not the way in which I prefer to go racing, in any respect, however [was] what I needed to do right this moment.”
Magnussen ultimately allowed Hamilton to cross by, after their Flip 11 conflict on lap 14 that had meant Tsunoda’s RB slipped forward of the Mercedes.
Hamilton would later repass Tsunoda on the ultimate lap however misplaced the dash race’s remaining level as he was hit with a post-race penalty for dashing within the pitlane through the early security automotive interval and so fell to sixteenth.
Magnussen at the moment has 5 penalty factors on his license following his collision with Yuki Tsunoda within the Chinese language GP.
If he have been to be handed two factors for every incident within the Miami dash, he can be on 13 factors and dealing with a race ban as the brink for such a sanction is 12.
Autosport has approached the FIA for clarification on the place Magnussen’s penalty factors whole now stands.