A year full of penalties: This is what it earned the FIA's bank account

In Formula 1, as in real life, it is possible to be fined for an offence. There is a difference, though: the amounts drivers and teams have to pay are many times higher. As a result, the FIA's bank account is also well-stocked in 2022.

Red Bull was fined $7 million this season for exceeding the budget cap, while Aston Martin and Williams were fined $450,000 and $25,000 for procedural errors. Furthermore, the FIA was allowed to credit 116,800 euros from fines for on-track violations. Of that, the teams had to pay 98,000 euros and the drivers 18,600 euros,  Auto, Motor und Sport has found out.

More offences

Last year, 113,400 euros worth of fines were handed out. So a lower amount than in 2022, but the number of offences did increase: 96 to 140. Besides fines, time penalties, grid penalties, losing a lap time, reprimands or warnings, for example, were also handed out. Most infringements were recorded among the AlphaTauri drivers. After Gasly with 14 and Tsunoda with 12 offences, Lance Stroll (10), Sebastian Vettel (9), Alexander Albon (7) and Guanyu Zhou (7) were frequently penalised. Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton got only two each. Max Verstappen was punished three times by the stewards.

Admittedly, Hamilton did not have many violations, but in Singapore he did provide the highest fine of the year, at 35,000 euros. Of that, 10,000 euros was conditional and the team reimbursed 25,000 euros because it forgot in its technical inspection report that Hamilton had another nose piercing. An expensive ring it was.