Revealed: The most fined drivers and teams on the F1 2024 grid

The FIA can punish drivers and teams in a number of ways in a race weekend, and fines are one of them – so here is a look at the F1 2024 season so far and who has picked up a punishment to date.

We’ll be keeping track of each driver and team’s fines throughout the season, and while some fines are as low as €100 for going ever so slightly above the pit lane speed limit, it was actually Lewis Hamilton who ended up with the highest combined amount of fines of anyone else in 2023 after receiving a €50,000 fine (€25,000 suspended) for crossing the track in Qatar after his crash with George Russell.

The most fined teams and drivers from the F1 2024 season

For clarity, it is often the competitor (ie. team) who is hit with the fine, not the driver, even if the driver performs the infringement. Whether or not any money comes out of the driver’s pockets eventually is dependent on their situation with the team!

After a squeaky clean Bahrain Grand Prix weekend for the drivers and teams, the first fine of the season came in Saudi Arabia a week later, and it was a big one for Mercedes – but Lando Norris earned a huge fine for one moment in Miami.

Lance Stroll has been the biggest repeat offender so far this season, but it has been relatively small fry in comparison to other teams’ transgressions in 2024, with the biggest individual fines so far coming for Lando Norris and Yuki Tsunoda.

€50,000 – Lando Norris

• Miami GP – crossing the track without permission – €50,000 (€25,000 suspended)

After being knocked out of the Miami Grand Prix Sprint, Lando Norris crossed the track in an unsafe manner and the FIA immediately fined him €50,000 (€25,000 of which suspended without a similar offence), along with a reprimand for what could have been an “extremely dangerous situation.”

€46,300 – Red Bull

• Emilia-Romagna GP – pit lane speeding – Sergio Perez – €1,000
• Canadian GP – driving in an unsafe condition – Sergio Perez – €25,000
• British GP – impeding – Isack Hadjar – €20,000
• British GP – speeding in the pit lane – Max Verstappen – €100
• British GP – speeding in the pit lane – Max Verstappen – €100
• British GP – speeding in the pit lane – Max Verstappen – €100

Sergio Perez earned a chunky fine for pit lane speeding in Imola, going almost 10km/h over the limit to earn Red Bull’s first fine of the season. Perez also caused significant damage to his rear wing crashing in Canada, but in bringing it back to the pit lane in an unsafe condition, the FIA fined Red Bull a whopping €25,000 and gave Perez a three-place grid penalty for the following race, the Spanish Grand Prix.

At Silverstone, rookie driver Isack Hadjar was found to have impeded Lando Norris during an FP1 run at Farm, causing the McLaren driver to take avoiding action and landing Red Bull with a huge fine, while multiple fines came later for Max Verstappen speeding in the pit lane on three separate occasions.

€40,000 – Yuki Tsunoda

• Austrian GP – ‘inappropriate comments on team radio’ – €40,000 (€20,000 suspended)

After a moment in which he used an ableist slur, for which he later apologised, in Austria, Yuki Tsunoda was handed a massive fine for what the FIA called “offensive and wholly inappropriate” language while on team radio. Tsunoda apologised on social media and was noted to have been “horrified” at learning what the word in question meant, but a hefty punishment was handed his way nonetheless.

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€25,000 – Mercedes

• Saudi Arabian GP – impeding – Lewis Hamilton – €15,000
• Japanese GP – unsafe release – George Russell – €5,000
• Austrian GP – unsafe release – Lewis Hamilton – €5,000

After Logan Sargeant had to take avoiding action from Lewis Hamilton in free practice for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, it was Mercedes who were fined a hefty €15,000 after Sargeant swerved to avoid what the stewards described what would have been a “serious, high speed crash.”

Hamilton apologised over team radio in the moment, but was also given a warning by the FIA for the incident.

In Japan, an unsafe release for George Russell in the pit lane also cost the team a further €5,000 as Oscar Piastri had to take avoiding action in qualifying. This was added to in Austria, with a further €5,000 fine for Mercedes when Hamilton was released into the pit lane while dragging a jack and exhaust extractor behind him.

€15,700 – Aston Martin

• Japanese GP – pit lane speeding – Lance Stroll – €100
• Miami GP – pit lane speeding – Lance Stroll – €400
• Emilia-Romagna GP – pit lane speeding – Lance Stroll – €100
• Monaco GP – pit lane speeding – Lance Stroll – €100
• British GP – impeding – Lance Stroll – €15,000

Lance Stroll was caught at 80.9km/h in the pit lane in Japan, landing Aston Martin their first fine of the season, and he clocked 83.5km/h in Miami, earning the team a slightly larger fine that time around, but was clocked again at just 0.1km/h above the limit in Imola.

While the pit lane speed limit is lower in Monaco, he went above that again in Monte Carlo to earn a fourth speeding fine in just five races.

At Silverstone, the team was fined a hefty €15,000 after Stroll was found to have impeded Charles Leclerc on the exit of the sweeping Maggotts, Becketts and Chapel section, with Aston Martin conceding they had not given him the appropriate radio information at the time.

€15,000 – RB

• Emilia-Romagna GP – ‘potentially dangerous’ impeding – Daniel Ricciardo – €5,000
• Canadian GP – lateness for the national anthem – Yuki Tsunoda – €10,000

Daniel Ricciardo had his collar felt by the stewards for getting in Kevin Magnussen’s way during free practice at Imola, and while they don’t usually investigate impeding in practice, a significant fine was handed down for a “potentially dangerous” situation at that time.

As for Yuki Tsunoda, his first fine of the season came in Canada after he was running late for the national anthem in the pre-race ceremony in Montréal. The FIA did say a reprimand could have been used, but a significant €10,000 fine was handed down instead.

€10,000 – Alpine

• Chinese GP – unsafe incident during a pit stop – Pierre Gasly – €10,000

Alpine were deemed “wholly responsible” for a pit stop error which saw a team member “lightly injured” during a pit stop for Pierre Gasly in China, in which the green light was activated when the right rear tyre was not correctly fitted. Gasly lost time in the stop and the team member was able to carry on working, but the team were given a hefty punishment.

€6,000 – Sauber

• Australian GP – pit stop equipment in the pit lane – €5,000
• Monaco GP – pit lane speeding – Valtteri Bottas – €1,000

Pit stops were something of an issue for the Sauber team at the start of the 2024 season, and the team losing control of a wheel nut in the pit lane caused ‘potentially dangerous’ circumstances, according to the FIA, which landed the team with a significant fine from the stewards. Valtteri Bottas was then clocked at 74.6km/h in the pit lane in Monaco – fine in a normal pit lane, not in Monte Carlo, where the speed limit is 60km/h.

€5,000 – Ferrari

• Canadian GP – using intermediate tyres when the track was not declared wet – Charles Leclerc – €5,000

In an rarely-seen fine, Charles Leclerc was sent out on intermediate tyres during an FP2 session in which the weather changed, but with the track not officially declared wet at that time, this constituted a rule breach – as in a fully dry weekend, what’s to stop teams running inters or wets for a lap to hold onto their dry allocation for a little while longer otherwise?

€200 – Williams

• British GP – speeding in the pit lane – Alex Albon – €100
• British GP – speeding in the pit lane – Alex Albon – €100

On his reconnaissance laps before the British Grand Prix, Alex Albon was clocked at 0.3 and 0.2km/h above the pit lane speed limit, earning him a small fine each time.

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