What Happened To Kevin Magnussen? Ft. Jeb Motorsport 

Great video Ben!! I’m actually a big fan of magnussen lol. I think he’s a great driver who really missed out on some good shots. This video was super informative and brought back many memories!

I still feel Kmag should have stayed. They killed his career

Great video Ben! I think Magnussen is another classic case of a good driver who was never in the right place at the right time. A real shame, because he has showed moments of brilliance even in under-performing cars

I believe Magnussen could have massive success in a decent car. He delivers great car control, big entertainment, he is brave and a truly hard racer. Look what he can do in poor cars.... imagine what he could do in great cars ❤️❤️ I will truly miss his great overtakes. Massa against the wall I will never forget, and his commitment in a burning hot car in Singapore. The fun he had with three World Champions behind him in Spa 14❤️🤩

It was very refreshing to watch this after mag came back. Always liked watching him race. Really excited for it ask to start again.

I like K-mag and genuinely will miss him.

Kevin magnussen should go on IndyCar..his style of racing is fit on IndyCar..

K-Mag is a really good and extremely fast driver. A pity that it went for him like that. He could have had the potential of being a Top 3 Driver. Let's see how things are going on for him in the US, i wish him all the best. :)

If McLaren was good like it was when Hamilton was at the team in 2007 Magnussen would be able to be a better driver and feeling comfortable beibg no1 . Unfortunately these things didn't happen

What happened to Kmag's career? Me: Haas happened.

Haas ruined his career, they didn’t and still don’t have a really competitive car. Magnussen should have stayed with Renault or should have moved to McLaren

Best starter on the grid..its really too bad

Fair assessment. Certainly one of the "what if" crowd. McLaren were going through a phase of doing a number on drivers careers at the time. Clearly talented but in F1 that makes you average and if you're not in the right place at the right time you're Stoffel Vandoorne.

I'm a dane, even from the same city as K-Mag, and obviosly a huge fan of him. But i truly think that we have never seen his full potential unleashed. He is, in my opinion, one of the fastest guys out there. Could he challenge Lewis or Max in a similar car? Maybe not, but he would be right there in their slipstream, giving them a hard time. The engineers who has worked with him over the years knows what he can do i a racecar. But i'm actually happy to se him leave F1 to join IMSA, and hopefully get a more competitive car. In a couple of years, he will get the recognition that he deserves, and people will think to themselves "why didn't that amazing driver stay in F1?" :-)

Sad to see him leave f1 i am really going to miss him, i really wanted to see him go to a better team and drive a better car, because i really think if he got a better car he can fight for maybe some podiums or atleast be in the points😂♥️😭

Renault should have kept him

man... so mclaren blocked his move to another team (i heard andretti so i assume indycar) and then jettison him after the season? thats pretty damn dirty

I like Kmag because for me he is an old school through and through racer and unapologetically unfiltered outside of the car which is something I as a fan appreciate. The problem he has is he's always been found wanting in terms of raw pace. Similar to Albon he is fearless and entertaining to watch in a dogfight but is unable to match the speed of some of the better drivers you find on the grid. His time in F1 is now over in my opinion, I don't see any other team wanting to take him but I could see he him having a great end to his career in which ever form of motorsport he next decides to take up.

This video is already extremely relevant 1 year later.

KMag surprised us all today

They had to big expectations in his first season and when he got to haas he never got a car that could compete for wins or podiums

I think that Kevin never got the politics of F1 and you dont se him talk to other drivers. i think that ended it

Great driver who never got to show his real potential

KMAG is one of the best drivers in the field, MAGs biggest problem is the lag of a major sponser. If he have hade a good sponser package he would have secured a seat in a top team. Or if just he hade been with the red bull program, he had been along side with Max now.

The footage of Kevin and Jolyon walking down the Silverstone pitlane. Good chance I was watching from the main grandstand as we were at their Silverstone 2016 film day.

After such a good debut race it’s weird his career never took off from there I’ve always rated the guys speed just been so unlucky in teams and stuck at Hass for too long hopefully he gets a better opportunity in future since he’s still young enough

KMag is one of the most underrated drivere on the grid. If he was driving a pink Mercedes this year (2020) it wouldn't be Perez there was promoted to a REDBULL driver. But all his F1 career, he has bin in a bad car, or at least in a team there was down preforming. I'm looking forward to se him in IMSA, in a car with potential.

Kevin is back in Formel 1 for the secound time:)

Legit Kmag deserves a F1 seat hopes he get a seat in 2022 if not his F1 career is done permanent

He's back! 😊

I Think Kevin is much underated. I love Kevin and i hope we see him back in f1

Billionare sons is what happend to not only kevin , but also formula 1

Welcome back Kmag!!

Sick Video bro. Audio sounding crisp!!!!

Magnussen deserved better in several areas, had he teamed up with Torro Rosso & Force India / Racing Point, or even returned back to McLaren in 2019 he would have been able to show his raw speed and talent. Place him in a 2020 McLaren or Red Bull car, and he would push for podiums every time! Hope he get’s his IMSA podium this year, and returns to F1 in 2022 🙏🏼

What happened to Magnussens carreer, was Ron Dennis and subsequently Kevin Magnussen getting shafted at McLaren, then Renault screwed him over in 2016. Haas kept him for 4 years after that, however not having a car that was competitive, killed the drive.

Driving a shit car for a long time is a career killer.

Great video as always

He’s back in f1

It's sad to see Magnussens talent "fade away" or at least his potential. Unfortunately he has been at Renault at their worst time. Now Renault are doing very well. Haas had a good season back in 2018 and we saw a good Magnussen. But overall he has been at the wrong places at the wrong times... Sadly. He still have so much potential, if he had a better car. Would love to see him at Red Bull or at least a competitive car. And by far the best starter on the grid, no doubt. But Magnussen missing winning races, which is the reason for him leaving the F1.

“Instigated by the Torpedo”🤣😭😭😭

What a pity ....Kevin are a great driver and deserved to be in Formula 1 with a strong team......in 2021

Put Kevin in a mercedes car in this season u saw what Russel could do, its truly being in the right car at the right time, but money also talks :)

he's only 28, he can come back one day!!

Probably the most honest and true video about k-mags F1 career! The only thing I can point at is that in the end of his Renault season, you say, he might lost his faith in the team, that is true, but it was because they favored Palmer (doe to his signing the year after) to make him look good, so Palmer got all the new spare parts for the final races… You can find several pictures of k-mags Renault with gaffa tape on his car in the final races… But nevertheless, awesome video 

Keven just entered F1 at a time where the sport in general, and still is, in a bad place. Old drivers entered the sport at a time where driving ment something, and the 2nd year at Mclaran proved that. No matter how good you are, you need to be a HUGE name that attracts sponsers, or you need to pay for your drive in order to make a name. So unless you have a loaded pop pop, you dont have a chance. Teams are struggeling for cash, and the sport is not generating money anymore compared to what it use to. Also he is from Denmark, that means a HUGE uphill battle for sponsers that will pay for F1. Had he been from England, Germany, France og Italy then i think he would have gone all the way.

Jeb the Kevin fanboy!!! I really enjoyed this. Have always said that KMag could've been a brilliant midfield driver, but he has had some rotten luck and his career just didn't go in that way :(

I agree. KMAG had a lot of potential to drive in one of the big teams but he didn’t manage to get the right contract.

Who knows what could have happened at McLaren had he not been pushed aside for Alonso. But, the higher ups thought that a prima donna would fit better with Button 🧐. Here in Missouri we call that horse shit 🤨

Getting binned by Mclaren was the beginning of the end, ironically at the beginning of his career. Poor career choices seemed to be the reason for his poor career itself but he does get a bit out of line sometimes. A driver who should have been more but sadly didn't live up to his potential. Great video again Ben!

He is an superb driver, overtaker and starter. Amazing race craft. He never had a truly competitive car to prove it.

I'm here for Jeb

Great video

The best driver to fall out of F1 since I started watching in 1995.. Haas are no good and Grosjean's good quali pace made them look equal but Kevin hammered him when they were team mates.. I hope he can get back in somehow.. 🙏🙏🙏

I think we need to look how he was managed (on and off track), and what personal sponsors he could bring. On track, to me it seems, he never really dominated his teammate and I can't recall talk of him pulling a bad car up the grid. As we know talent will only get you so far in modern F1.

Great video, better than the others I've seen about Kmag! 👌 I think you could have found better 2017 examples of “recklessness” than the incidents with Ericson in Australia and Sainz in Spain. The Ericsson incident was a mistake other drivers make too and the Sainz incident I would say is up to debate but the Hulkenberg incident was no doubt too hotheaded and stupid of Kmag. I find his bad boy reputation a bit silly. His driving style is elbows out, but he shares that driving style with others on the grid e.g. Ricciardo, Verstappen or Albon, but he just does not have the car or results to be excused. People want hard racing but only from the popular drivers. So I think that if he is reckless then many drivers are reckless… but they drive F1 so I guess they have to be reckless😅 Also, Kmags reputation is not really supported when looking at FIA penalty points, warnings etc. I have the impression that what slowed him down was his mindset. Like I have seen in other sports, some of those who has been used to winning and being on top, never learned to lose and find motivation in other things when not winning. In a danish interview he kind of said that himself when talking about a good qualifying. Later it seemed that he stated to lose focus to other things in life. I would have liked for him to stay in F1 but it is not the end of the world. There are other interesting drivers!

it went wrong when an aging button out-classed him entirely. we know grosjean is fast on saturday, but the fact that magnussen never truly "took the torch" from grosjean meant no other team was going to try him. if he had a single season where he comprehensively outperformed one of his "benchmark" teammates, I think he would've moved up the field, but by virtue of not quite being that good, he trickled down the grid, and eventually from the grid entirely. I don't get the "what happened to him" crowd, when I haven't seen anyone notice him in his career for a good reason.

He's backkk

Now he moved to Chip Gannassi Racing team in the IMSA series and it will be very exciting to follow his career from now on

As a new fan to F1 what happened to him is HAAS, through watching Netflix you can tell HAAS is not up to par with other team’s car. Also having Romain as teammate doesn’t help either.

He bacc

Thanks for the video. You explain it well. But there is at lot that you missed out on. Fore eksampel why he did not try to compete more with Jenson Button in that first year. And other important things that he have eksplained later.

He is backkk

One of THE Best starters

Maybe we will find out after all!

I feel really bad for him, he definitely deserves to be on the grid and likely would be if he had better financial backing. If he was at McLaren a few years earlier he could’ve challenged for world championships.

Agree - and lets face it. Coming from a small country brings less funding. Alonso at McLaren, Hulk at Renault. Ron Dennis officially stated that Denmark has to do its part to keep Mag in the car.

Update: K-Mag returns to F1 Haas in 2022 season

Great video again especially with the memes 😂. Anyway, I actually think K-Mag is underrated and had he been at a car that is actually good and has a consistent basis of performance (2018, for example), he would have a much better career IMO in Formula 1 (although, him getting dropped after a relatively decent debut year by McLaren is a sign that unfortunately his career might not be on the upward trajectory he wanted it to be). But hey, at least he has a better F1 career than his father ;)

P5 in Bahrain, legend

i think they should have give him more oportunites because he is a great driver

If he had a competitive car he would have seen more podiums. No doubt about it.

well, they brought him back

According to what can be dug up at McLaren he was just as fast as Lewis Hamilton when they compared them both to Jenson Button. In the right car, his talent could have given Lewis, Verstappen and Ricciardo a run for their money. His career was cut short due to lack of sponsor money and the wrong manager.

He was unlucky it's a shame his talent got to waste at Haas and Renault, i 100% sure that he would be a champion challange if he got the car, that could make that happend

Can someone please clarify what the profound quote was at 11:02? I didn't quite get it. Thanks.

the sad thing is, there are so many great drivers out there that people would love to see but they aren't able to be in f1. It would be great if there was another series that could house the f1 drivers the got kicked out while still having them compete. they could race at different tracks like how f1 has this year at the Nurburgring, Portimao, Mugello, turkey. kinda like f2 but also not.

HEEEEEEEE IS BACK!!!!!!!!

7:44 Kevin saw his future at Haas

McLaren ruined his career by choosing PR and more money over talent and perfomance. I wish Red Bull would have considered him along side Verstappen because they have the same agressive driving style so the car might fit him more than it fitted Gasly and Albon.

And return to f1

Great stuff - and you are exactly right. To my opinion too, KMags F1-career has been characterized by not being at the right place at the right time team-wise. He has been "unlucky" not to be available at the right time for a larger/stronger team. To my view you currently have top drivers like Verstappen, Hamilton, Leclerc and Russel, and then you have a large number of mid-field drivers, where Mag (again to my opinion) is in the top of that mid-field, and where potentially given the right drive, could have been a F1 World Champion. Now he won't. Too bad.

I'm sad to see him leave, although he was happy at Haas, it just sucks that their car wasn't much good.

Redbull was foolish not to sign him.. MAG and MAX would have been a killing duo...

I don't think K-Mag's talent had such a high ceiling, but, in the right place and in the right time, he could be the runner-up of the drivers championship like Bottas. One thing is for sure, on a merc, he would have better starts than Valteri.

I think it went down for him the day he startet at Hass. There car arent good enough to drive infront like K-mac should do every race. If he was in a mercedes, Redbull or ferraie he would be world champion a few times, I think

What happened to him? He's back again.

Especially McLaren and Renault acted terribly towards Kevin. He should have had a chance in a top car.

if he was at redbull he would be a mad lad

K-MAG are BACK !

I want a video about kobayashi , he was a good driver and I dont understand why he was out of f1

I hope K-Mag comes back soon :(

Give that man a Mercedes and you will see results

Now we will know :-)

I blieve many drivers with multiple season experience in F1 can even win races in a good car. Checo is the latest one who won the race after 9 years. Who knows what would've happened if Grosjean had a RedBull chance instead of Kvyat.

Great video. In my opinion Magnussen's career was destroyed when he got onto that podium in 2014. He spoke about how that race gave him the false illusion that he could be fighting for the championship that year when ultimatly McLaren weren't even near that level. And coupled with the way he was booted from McLaren it ended up taking him all the way until 2017 before he started to regain his shine in F1. And we saw that in 2018 where he without doubt was at the best in his career but then the Rich Energy saga happend and Haas lost pace and once again he was left with a shit car to try and haul points. Was he championship material? Maybe not but he sure was a fast guy and much like Perez and Vandoorne at McLaren, Magnussen was dealt a shit hand which ended up breaking his career before it had really started. I hope his endurance racing career will give him similar succes as his fathers sportscar career did, because Kevin is deffenetly a driver that deserves to win championships.

Yes- Great Video, Thanks! Unfortunately for the last few years he just wasn't capable of outdriving that HAAS. Once they lost 'the handle' on the tires, he hasn't had a chance, then throw in this years Ferrari engine and they still cannot manage the tires for some reason. I don't expect much change next year for HAAS, They just replaced professional drivers with pay drivers. He didn't fail, the car failed him. So, we have him moving unto IMSA next year. F1's loss is America's gain. We'll find out soon enough in the Daytona-24. I'm expecting great things from him, he's already earned a small fortune in F1. If he hasn't squandered it all away... I think he'll win a couple of class championships, like his dad.

He got back in a Haas 😅

Like many that enter the work force or the world you find out that Talent and Skills are just a portion of finding and keeping a job, being liked, getting a promotion or being recognised. It actually has a lot to do with who you know, how they see you, politics and luck. In Kevin's case he had poor luck, poor in politics and poor agent (who you know part).

what if Kmag to RB?