Motor racing-US GP promoter fined 500,000 euros for track invasion


Formula One F1 - United States Grand Prix - Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas, United States - October 20, 2024 General view during the race Pool via REUTERS/Patrick T. Fallon

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Formula One's governing body imposed a 500,000 euros ($543,250) fine on the U.S. Grand Prix promoter on Sunday after a post-race track invasion, with 350,000 euros suspended to the end of 2026.

Stewards said in a statement that the suspended element of the fine depended on there being no further track incursions at the Circuit of the Americas before that date at any FIA championship event.

They recommended that the unsuspended portion "be dedicated to additional motorsport safety by the FIA safety department" and ordered the promoter to submit a formal remediation plan by the end of this year.

Stewards said some 200 people had climbed a small fence and dropped around two metres to the ground between the pit straight grandstand and debris fencing.

They then went under the debris fencing, climbed over a metre-high wall and merged onto the main straight while cars were still on a cool down lap after the chequered flag.

It was noted that the track had never before had such an invasion during the 12 years of hosting Formula One.

($1 = 0.9204 euros)

(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Peter Rutherford)

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