The Danish driver made a bold move in damp conditions to take pole position for the sprint race at Interlagos on Saturday. Today we will discuss about Kevin Magnussen: Pole| Indycar| How old is| Podium
Kevin Magnussen: Pole| Indycar| How old is| Podium
Kevin Jan Magnussen (born 5 October 1992) is a Danish racing driver currently competing in Formula One for Haas F1 Team.
Pole
Kevin Magnussen’s pole position for the Haas Formula 1 team at the Brazilian GP will join other similar underdog achievements in the sport’s history books.
The common denominator in such cases is essentially rain, plus a team and a driver who does everything right on a day when the common denominators do not achieve their usual level of perfection.
Luck seems to play a part, but it would be wrong to suggest that luck was the biggest factor in Magnussen’s achievement. His team made all the right calls, and the Dane had to work the track in difficult conditions.
This being a sprint weekend, qualifying was a practice session before sinking in, and the lack of preparation time probably acted as a leveler. Magnussen was in an impressive 16th place in FP1, but his teammate Mick Schumacher was eighth, suggesting the car had some potential.
Magnussen ended the difficult Q1 session in a very respectable seventh place when everyone switched to slicks on the drier track, and then he repeated that result in Q2 to ensure a place in the final part of qualifying. It was not a humiliating surprise that he had finished fifth in Canada in June in similar circumstances.
Schumacher showed how easy it was to be on the wrong side of luck, he was probably over-cautious doing a few good laps at the start in damp conditions and didn’t get a quick enough lap when it mattered at the end of Q1, and was placed in the 20th. I was knocked out.
Indycar
Haas F1 driver Kevin Magnussen says he was surprised by how difficult an IndyCar was to drive during his one-off race at Road America last year.
After losing his drive at Haas at the end of the 2020 season, Magnussen will race in the IMSA SportsCar Championship in North America with Chip Ganassi for the 2021 season.
Magnussen was also given the opportunity to drive the McLaren SP in the Road America race in place of Felix Rosenqvist, who was sidelined after a violent crash in Detroit. Despite never having driven an IndyCar before the weekend, Magnussen briefly led the race after a yellow flag period until his pit out of sequence forced him to retire due to mechanical problems.
Magnussen admitted that compared to his experience driving in Formula 1, the IndyCar took some getting used to.
“The big thing for me was driving without power steering,” Magnussen explained. “It just felt so foreign to me.
“I had gotten used to the feeling of driving a Formula 1 car, which is very different from IndyCar. So when I got that opportunity, it was like a few days before the event. So I didn’t have time to do anything . No simulator, no test first. So my first time in an IndyCar was one free practice and there were only two practices. I said yes because why the hell not? It was tough.”
How old is
Kevin Magnussen is a Danish racing driver, born on 5 October 1992 in Roskilde. He is 30 years old.
Magnussen made his F1 debut at the 2014 Australian Grand Prix, joining McLaren for that season to replace the late Sergio Pérez.
He scored a P2 finish on debut, making Magnussen the first rookie that Lewis Hamilton had done in 2007, ironically also for McLaren.
For 2015 Magnussen would be demoted to the reserve driver role at McLaren to make way for the return of Fernando Alonso, although he was released from his contract with the team in October of that year.
After negotiations with Haas and Manor Racing, Magnussen was confirmed as the Renault driver for 2016, although this would last only a year before Esteban Gutierrez moved to Haas.
Magnussen has enjoyed the most stable period of his F1 career with Haas.
Interestingly Magnussen’s career came very close to a halt at the junior level – between Formula Ford in 2008 and unexpectedly securing a sponsorship for Formula Renault in 2009, Magnussen was forced to leave his racing career and work as a factory welder. was forced to work.
Podium
Kevin Magnussen joined McLaren’s young driver program in 2009 and within four years the team decided to promote him to their F1 race squad.
His father Jan Magnussen had started his association with the same team 15 years earlier, making a solo debut for McLaren at the 1995 Pacific Grand Prix.
The younger Magnussen emulated his father’s ascent through the lower ranks, although without the same distinctive promise as his father’s famously dominant British Formula Three campaign. He moved up from karts to win the Formula Ford Championship of Denmark in 2008, and two years later was winning F3 races in the German and European series in his rookie campaign.
He followed in his father’s footsteps at the British Championships in 2011. But after winning 14 out of 18 races in 1994, Kevin had to settle for second place in the championship behind teammate Felipe Nasr. Nonetheless, he underlined his credentials by matching Nasr’s seven wins.
This prompted a move up to Formula Renault 3.5 where newer and more powerful cars were being used for the first time. Magnussen acquitted himself well, but suffered a runaway season, losing an almost certain victory in Hungary when his car failed a lap from home.
POLE BABY!!! Can't believe it!!! Thank you @HaasF1Team 👊👊👊 pic.twitter.com/uPDFayJNV8
— Kevin Magnussen (@KevinMagnussen) November 11, 2022
