Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A Jerez da Bahrain pre-season gwaje-gwaje ya topped da timesheets, kuma a farko tseren a Australia, ya cancanci a matsayi na hudu. A cikin tseren kanta, Magnussen ya guji faduwa a farkon bayan motarsa ta haɗu da oversteer ta hanyar ƙafafun ƙafa. Bayan ya wuce Lewis Hamilton da ke fama da cutar Mercedes a farkon matakai, Magnussen ya ci gaba da matsayi don ɗaukar matsayi na uku; ya gama da dakika 2.2 a bayan Daniel Ricciardo na Red Bull. A sakamakon haka, Magnussen ya zama na biyu Danish direba <unk> bayan mahaifinsa Jan, wanda ya kasance na shida a 1998 Canadian Grand Prix
<unk> don ɗaukar maki-scoring gama, da kuma na farko debutant, tun Hamilton a 2007 Australian Grand Prix, ya dauki wani mataki a cikin farko Grand Prix. Bayan tseren, Magnussen ya bayyana sakamakon a matsayin "kamar nasara". Daga baya ya sami ci gaba zuwa matsayi na biyu a sakamakon, bayan da aka dakatar da Ricciardo saboda rashin daidaito na man fetur, wanda ya sa ya zama dan wasa na farko da ya kammala na biyu tun lokacin da Jacques Villeneuve a 1996 Australian Grand Prix. Magnussen ya yi rikodin ƙarin maki goma sha ɗaya a cikin shekara ta 2014, yawancin su na tara ne ko na goma; kodayake Magnussen ya yi rikodin na bakwai a Austria da Burtaniya <unk> kewayen da yake da gogewa a baya daga tsarin ƙuruciya <unk> da kuma na biyar a Rasha.