Kevin Magnussen

Kevin Jan Magnussen (born 5 October 1992) is a Danish racing driver currently competing in Formula One for Haas F1 Team.

He is the son of four-time Le Mans winner and former Formula One driver Jan Magnussen.

He was later promoted to second place in the results, after Ricciardo was disqualified due to fuel irregularities, making him the first rookie to finish second since Jacques Villeneuve at the 1996 Australian Grand Prix.

As a result, Magnussen became the second Danish driver – after his father Jan, who was sixth at the 1998 Canadian Grand Prix – to take a points-scoring finish, the first Danish podium finisher and the first debutant, since Hamilton at the 2007 Australian Grand Prix, to take a podium in his first Grand Prix.

After the race, Magnussen described the result as "like a victory".

In 2008 he made the step up to Formula Ford in Denmark, taking 11 victories from 15 races and winning the championship.

He also took part in six races of the ADAC Formel Masters series.

In 2009 Magnussen moved up to Formula Renault 2.0 with Motopark Academy.

He finished runner-up to António Félix da Costa in the Northern European Cup and finished seventh in the Eurocup.

In 2010 Magnussen competed in the German Formula Three Championship with Motopark Academy, winning the opening round of the season at Oschersleben and taking two more race victories.

He finished third in the championship, taking the rookie title in the process.

In 2011 Magnussen moved to the British Formula 3 Championship with Carlin.

He took seven race victories and finished as championship runner-up to teammate Felipe Nasr.

He also competed in the Masters of Formula 3 race at Zandvoort, finishing 3rd.

2011 marked Magnussen's first and only appearance at the Macau Grand Prix.

He placed 7th in qualifying, but was forced to start from the back of the grid in the qualification race after ignoring yellow flags.

Magnussen moved up to the Formula Renault 3.5 Series in 2012 with the Carlin team, with Will Stevens as his teammate.

Magnussen finished the opening race at Motorland Aragón in 2nd place, and took pole position in both races at Spa-Francorchamps, converting the second into a race victory.

He ended the season in 7th place in the championship.

Magnussen had his first experience of the McLaren MP4-27 Formula One car on track at the Abu Dhabi Young Driver test in 2012.

He set a quickest time of 1:42.651.

Previously he had done work in the team's driving simulator.

Magnussen's time was the best of the three-day test impressing McLaren's sporting director Sam Michael.

The distance he covered in the course of the test was sufficient to earn his FIA Super Licence.

Magnussen would drive for McLaren for the season, replacing Sergio Pérez.

He remained in Formula Renault 3.5 for 2013, moving to DAMS alongside Norman Nato.

2013 was far more successful for Magnussen, claiming five victories, eight other podium places and eight pole positions.

He finished the season as champion, 60 points clear of runner-up Stoffel Vandoorne.

Magnussen came up through McLaren Formula One team's Young Driver Programme and drove for McLaren in the 2014 Formula One World Championship, before a stint with Renault in.

Magnussen drove for Haas from until the end of the season.

In 2022, Magnussen rejoined Haas on a multi-year deal.

Born in Roskilde, Denmark, Magnussen began his career in karting.

In line with a new rule introduced for the 2014 season requiring drivers to choose a car number to use during their Formula One career, Magnussen raced with number 20 as this was the number he had on his DAMS car in 2013 when he won the Formula Renault 3.5 championship.

At the Jerez and Bahrain pre-season tests he topped the timesheets, and at the first race in Australia, he qualified in fourth position.

In the race itself, Magnussen avoided crashing at the start after his car encountered oversteer through wheelspin.

After passing Lewis Hamilton's ailing Mercedes in the early stages, Magnussen maintained position to take a third-place finish; he finished 2.2 seconds behind Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo.

Magnussen recorded eleven further points-scoring finishes throughout 2014, the majority being ninth- or tenth-place finishes; although he recorded seventh-place finishes in Austria and Great Britain – circuits where he had prior experience from junior formulae – and a fifth-place finish in Russia.

Fernando Alonso replaced Magnussen for the 2015 season and Magnussen became the test and reserve driver for McLaren.

Magnussen had talks with Honda-powered team Andretti Autosport to compete in the 2015 IndyCar Series, but McLaren blocked the deal.

He started the main race from 19th place, but was eliminated after a high-speed collision late in the race.