AFP
Formula One drivers expressed shock and amazement on Thursday after the game’s governing physique quadrupled the quantity stewards can nice them to a most of €1 million (AED 3.8 million).
The change to the International Sporting Code (ISC) was authorized at a gathering of the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council in Geneva.
It mentioned the earlier most of €250,000 had not been reviewed or amended for a minimum of the final 12 years “and does not reflect the current needs of motor sport”.
Mercedes’ George Russell, a director of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association (GPDA), mentioned the brand new most “seems obscene”.
“In my first year of Formula One (at Williams), I was on a five-figure salary and actually lost over six figures from paying for my trainer, paying for flights, paying for an assistant,” he informed reporters on the US Grand Prix.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc mentioned he had no concept what may deserve a $1 million penalty and Haas driver Kevin Magnussen, whose workforce have one of many smallest budgets, mentioned it sounded ridiculous.
“Charles can give his watch but I would disappear, never to be found again,” added the Dane.
Leclerc had an unique Richard Mille watch, which stories valued at greater than $2 million, stolen off his wrist in Italy final 12 months.
