In 2023, Grand Prix stewards fined teams and drivers 170 times. These include 73 penalties with extra time, 44 with money, 14 with loss of places at the start, 17 with starting from the pit lane. The remaining fines are official warnings.
44 fines brought the FIA 107,900 euros. This is slightly less than in 2021 (11,3400 euros) and 2022 (11,6800 euros). Of this, the teams paid a total of €76,000 and the drivers €31,900. Williams paid the most: the team was fined five times, for a total of 30,000 euros.
Among the riders, Stroll and Zhou were each fined five times. Guanyu paid 1300 euros, Lance – 900 euros.
Lewis Hamilton paid €700 for speeding in the pit lane, but was also fined €25,000 for crossing the track without permission from the marshals in Qatar.
Most penalties include a time extension of five or ten seconds. 38 of these fines relate to violations of highway limits. In Spielberg twenty riders were fined five or ten seconds, in Qatar twelve.
This year, Valtteri Bottas, Sergio Perez (twice), Esteban Ocon, Nico Hulkenberg (three times), Charles Leclerc, Logan Sargent (twice), Nick de Vries, Kevin Magnussen (twice), Fernando Alonso, Lance Wandel (twice) started from the pit lane. ), Guanyu Zhou.
Source: F1 News
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