Pierre Gasly is on the brink of making Formula 1 history, but it is not for the right reasons. The AlphaTauri driver has accumulated 10 penalty points over the last few months, putting him just two away from a race ban.
And he could become the first driver in the sport's history to receive a ban for too many infringements.Now, this may sound drastic, but it is not unknown to the drivers.
F1 introduced the penalty points system in 2014, declaring that if a driver receives 12 penalty points within a 12-month period, he will be banned from the next race.
The transgressions are wide-ranging, covering everything from causing on-track collisions to speeding in the pitlane.Though Gasly is not the only driver with 'bad debt', he is the closest to the dreaded mark.