The FIA have clarified how they spen💟d the money accrued from fining the F1 dri🐼vers.

A total of 270,000 Euros was taken out of the pockets of t♈he drivers by the sport’ꦰs governing body last season for a series of punishments.

Drivers were fined for transgressi🦩ons including pitlane speeding, crossing a live track, and most controversially using foul language.

Charles Leclerc and Max Verstapဣpen were notably fined for swearing in official press conferences.

But the FIA have moved to expla🦩in what they d𒊎o with the money.

FIA explain how money from fines is spent

"The FIA🏅 is not a profit-making organisation," Nikolas Tombazis, the organisation’s head of single-seater racing, told .

"We don't have shareholders who areꦑ looking at some numbers in the stock exchange and hoping for share price to go up or get more dividends or anything like th🌟at.

“So all the money is spent on what is considered to be beneficial aspects, whether it is for safety, for grassroots i🐎n motorsport, or sometimes other projects which are to do with road safety.

"I think this question is sometimes slightly influenced by the emotions of the moment, of whate꧙ver fine is being discussed and so on.

“I realise that anyone who is paying a fine is always sligh😼tly annoyed about it and may feel somewhat aggrieved, but for sure there are so many different levels of projects that I think you can never come to the conclusion that this money is somehow spent f൩or Christmas parties and so on.

"The amount𒆙 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.

“I think you would struggle to find projects at thꦚe FIA that don't ജhave 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 caღtegory or something like that.

“But if you look at other initiatives, whether it is our campaigns, like the one about online a🌃buse and all the grassroots we've been talking about before, or safety projects, I believe are noble ways of spending such money. An🥂d this money does contribute to that."