Kevin Magnussen will serve a one-race ban and miss the Azerbaijan GP after picking up two penalty points in Monza and bringing his points total for the past year to 12.
Although Haas has made no announcement his seat is likely to be taken by Ferrari reserve Oliver Bearman, who will race for the US-owned team in 2025.
Bearman has an F2 commitment with Prema in Baku, but the Italian team should have enough notice to find another driver.
That was not the case in Jeddah, when Bearman was called in to replace Carlos Sainz at the last minute.
Magnussen picked up a 10 second penalty plus the penalty points after contact with Pierre Gasly, with both drivers continuing after the incident.
He crossed the line in ninth place and the best runner outside the top four teams, but was demoted a spot to 10th.
“Yeah, frustrated about the penalty, I don’t understand it at all,” he said when asked by formu1a.uno. “Flat out, just completely confused.
“Me and Gasly raced hard into Turn 4. We had slight contact, we both missed the corner, came back on track again. No damage to either car, no consequence to the race of either of us.
“And I get a 10-second penalty. Then lap one, Ricciardo and Nico, Ricciardo put Nico in the grass at 300km/h completely destroyed Nico’s race. Massive consequence, and damage to Nico’s car, and he gets a five second penalty. Where’s the logic? I just don’t get it.”
Asked if there was anything he could do about the ban Magnussen said: “Come back in Singapore and have zero points.
“I said all the time, I’m not going to hold back, and it doesn’t make sense, and I scored a point today.”
Gasly admitted that the penalty was harsh.
“I’m a bit surprised for that,” said the Alpine driver. “Because he tried, but it was a bit of wheel-to-wheel. And in the end I really didn’t lose any time.
“I hope somehow they can revert on that, because that will be definitely unfair.”
