The FIA has confirmed that it has penalised US F1 for failing to take part in this year´s World Championship – although the team does not exist any more as the remnants were finally broken up in a recent liquidation auction.
If nothing else the action serves as a warning to future entrants that they will not get away lightly if they fail to show up.
The full text is as follows:
“During the extraordinary hearing that was held in Geneva on 23 June 2010, the Judging Body of the World Motor Sport Council examined, in application of the new disciplinary procedure adopted at the beginning of 2010, the failure of the USF1 Team to take part in the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship, for which it had been selected and had registered.
“Having had this disciplinary procedure submitted to it by the FIA President, who did not attend the hearing, the Judging Body of the World Motor Sport Council has found the USF1 team guilty of having infringed the FIA International Sporting Code, the sporting regulations of the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship and the obligations resulting from its entry in this Championship.
“In these circumstances, the Judging Body of the World Motor Sport Council has decided to impose the following sanctions against USF1:
“A fine of 309,000 euros (a sum equivalent to the Entry Fees for the Championship);
“The disqualification of USF1 (which definitively deprives USF1 of the right to take part, in any way whatsoever, in any competition);
“And the payment of the costs incurred by the FIA within the context of this disciplinary procedure.”
Adam Cooper F1 
Why not give a stop-go penalty to Kimi Raikonnen for something he did last year while they are at it.
What’s the point.
Flogging a dead horse…..
If anyone needs to be punished, it is Max Mosley and his cronies who selected such an incompetent team…..
It reads like there is still monies owing, for the USF1 demise.
The way I understand it, good luck in collecting.
Uppili has it right and I’ll take it a step further. Todt should send the bill to Mosley. He is the one who created this whole problem and many others.
Move on, already. Not like you don’t have some real issues to deal with.
Awesome! Wait till this hits the Austin airwaves! F1 is killing its US bid before it even gets started. FIA is its’ own worst enemy, not knowing that F1 in US is sitting on a glass house.
They,USF1, had already posted that amount as an entry fee late last year. I think this was the smallest fine that the FIA could impose and was largely a housekeeping entry in the books to transfer the funds to the FIA coffers.
I agree with Uppili and John. The WMSC has flexed it’s muscle by pissing on a dead body. I am underwhelmed. Albert said “move on” I agree. I am a life long F1 fan back to the days of Stirling Moss when I was a boy in New Jersey. I was sad as a Yank to see USF1 fail so miserably.
Checks in the mail and all the other saying. I truely sorry for this as I’m about F1 in Texas.
It’s about time. Prodrive should get the same treatment. They accepted a grid slot a few years ago and then abandoned it. Then wanted in again.
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