FIA single seater director Nikolas Tombazis has revealed where the money for driver fines are being allocated following questions from F1 drivers.
In a publicly released letter earlier this year from the Grand Prix Drivers' Association (GPDA), the F1 drivers called on the FIA to disclose where the funds from fines are spent.
Drivers can be fined for a number of regulation breaches, with a maximum possible fine sitting at €1 million - however, no driver has ever been handed this fee.
Tombazis has offered an insight into where the fines are allocated, insisting they are spread across various areas.
"The FIA is not a profit-making organisation," Tombazis told Autosport.
"We don't have shareholders who are looking at some numbers in the stock exchange and hoping for share price to go up or get more dividends or anything like that.
“So all the money is spent on what is considered to be beneficial aspects, whether it is for safety, for grassroots in motorsport, or sometimes other projects which are to do with road safety.”
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Mercedes' George Russell, who is a director at the GPDA, issued a renewed call to the FIA after its public letter calling for transparency.
Tombazis suggested emotions are steering the comments and questions regarding the fines as he asserted the penalties aren't being used to fund private parties.
"I think this question is sometimes slightly influenced by the emotions of the moment, of whatever fine is being discussed and so on,” he said.
“I realise that anyone who is paying a fine is always slightly annoyed about it and may feel somewhat aggrieved, but for sure there are so many different levels of projects that you can never come to the conclusion that this money is somehow spent for Christmas parties and so on.
"The amount of money spent in grassroots vastly exceeds the fines accumulated, which I think indicates that anything that goes in there will have a positive impact.
“You would struggle to find projects at the FIA that don't have some motorsport grassroots or social impact.
"What I can say with absolute certainty is that fines of drivers in one sport don't subsidise another sport or another category or something like that.
“But if you look at other initiatives, whether it is our campaigns, like the one about online abuse and all the grassroots we've been talking about before, or safety projects, I believe are noble ways of spending such money. And this money does contribute to that."
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