All eight drivers who have been banned from F1 as Max Verstappen nears rare punishment

Max Verstappen will become the ninth driver to be banned from Formula 1 if he is given a one-race ban for exceeding penalty points.

Verstappen was given three penalty points on his FIA Super Licence for colliding with George Russell at the Spanish Grand Prix.

He now has 11 points on his licence over a 12-month period. If a driver hits 12 points, they will incur a one-race ban.

That situation occurred last season, when Haas driver Kevin Magnussen was banned for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. He was replaced by Ollie Bearman, who finished 10th and was promoted to the race team for this season.

Verstappen crashed into Russell on lap 62 of the Spanish GP (Image: F1TV)

It is worth noting that Verstappen's first points expire on June 30, taking the Dutchman away from the threshold if he has not hit 12 by then.

But he will have to be careful at the upcoming Canadian Grand Prix, which takes place at Montreal on June 15.

The Austrian Grand Prix then takes place on June 29.

Here are the seven drivers - excluding the already-mentioned Magnussen - who have previously been banned from Formula 1:

Romain Grosjean (2012)

Romain Grosjean was in the midst of his first full F1 season with Lotus in 2012 when he was banned for one race by the FIA.

He was responsible for causing a multi-car crash on the first lap of the Belgian Grand Prix, which started when he moved across on Lewis Hamilton.

The resulting crash caused the retirements of five drivers, with Grosjean even going airborne and collecting Fernando Alonso and the Saubers of Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Perez.

The race stewards described the Frenchman's involvement in the crash as 'an extremely serious breach of the regulations', and he was replaced by reserve driver Jerome D'Ambrosio for the Italian Grand Prix.

Jacques Villeneuve (1997)

Jacques Villeneuve won the 1997 Drivers' Championship at the final race of the season - but things could have been different.

At the Japanese Grand Prix, the Canadian was found guilty of failing to slow for yellow flags during qualifying and was given a suspended race ban. Five other drivers committed the same infringement.

However, the FIA decided to enforce Villeneuve's ban as he had committed the infringement on three previous occasions that season.

His team, Williams, appealed the sanction to allow Villeneuve to start the race from pole, and he subsequently finished fifth.

The FIA would later reject the appeal and wiped the Williams driver's result from the records.

He still won the title by two points ahead of Michael Schumacher - who tried and failed to crash him out of the season-ending race in Jerez, and was himself disqualified from the entire championship.

Michael Schumacher (1994)

The Villeneuve incident was far from Schumacher's only brush with FIA law.

At the 1994 British Grand Prix, the future seven-time world champion decided to overtake Damon Hill on the formation lap after claiming that he was driving too slowly.

He earned a five-second penalty, but his team Benetton told him not to serve it while they discussed the matter with the FIA.

However, during those discussions, race stewards showed Schumacher a black flag for failing to serve the penalty.

Despite the German then serving the five-second penalty, his entry was disqualified and banned for two races due to his team failing to follow instructions.

Mika Hakkinen (1994)

Mika Hakkinen was the second driver to be banned in 1994 after he crashed into David Coulthard at the German Grand Prix.

That activated a previously suspended one-race ban for an incident involving Jordan's Rubens Barrichello earlier in the campaign.

Eddie Irvine (1994)

In 1999, Ferrari's Eddie Irvine and McLaren's Hakkinen were competing for the Drivers' Championship at the last race of the season.

But in 1994, they both had to spend time on the sidelines.

Irvine was banned for one race for his involvement in a four-car collision at the Brazilian Grand Prix.

He appealed, but instead of rescinding the ban, the FIA promptly increased it to three races instead.

Nigel Mansell (1989)

Three years before his only Drivers' Championship win, Nigel Mansell had a bizarre Portuguese Grand Prix in 1989.

He first reversed back into his pit box after overshooting it, resulting in the Brit being shown a black flag.

However, he was unable to take it by the time the decision had been announced, as he had already crashed into Ayrton Senna - causing both drivers to retire.

Due to this, the FIA gave Mansell a one-race ban to be served at the next Grand Prix in Jerez.

Riccardo Patrese (1978)

Once the F1 driver with the most Grand Prix starts in the sport's history, Riccardo Patrese was forced to sit out a race in 1978.

The Italian was blamed for a 10-car pile-up on the opening lap of his home Grand Prix, which caused severe injuries and burns to Lotus driver and title contender Ronnie Peterson.

Peterson's injuries were initially not life-threatening, but he died in hospital after developing an embolism.

The situation was so tense that Niki Lauda and Mario Andretti refused to race in the United States Grand Prix if Patrese was allowed to take part.

The FIA subsequently acted by banning Patrese from entering the Watkins Glen circuit. Patrese, who was 24 at the time, returned in the following race and spent a further 15 years in Formula 1.