100 million dollar fine?

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List of major sanctions in Formula One

Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:16pm BST

LONDON (Reuters) - The following is a list of previous major sanctions meted out in Formula One after championship leaders McLaren were stripped of their 2007 constructors' points on Thursday.

2007 - McLaren stripped of all their constructors' points, fined $100 million and barred from scoring any more points this year as a result of Ferrari technical information found in their possession.

The team had already lost 15 constructors' points from the Hungarian Grand Prix after world champion Fernando Alonso impeded team mate Lewis Hamilton at the end of qualifying.

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2006 - Turkish Grand Prix organisers handed a $5 million fine after a podium controversy at August race. Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat presented the winner's trophy and was introduced as "President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus", recognized only by Turkey.

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2005 - BAR (now Honda) disqualified from San Marino Grand Prix and suspended for two subsequent races after being found to have an illegal secondary fuel tank.

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2002 - Champions Ferrari, Germany's Michael Schumacher and Brazilian Rubens Barrichello fined $1 million for Austrian Grand Prix podium debacle. Barrichello had dominated the race but was ordered to let Schumacher win. The German then broke podium protocol by insisting Barrichello join him on the top step. Half the fine was suspended for a year, payable only if they reoffended within 12 months.

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2000 - McLaren fined $50,000 and docked 10 points in the constructors' championship for a missing seal on an electronic control unit after Finland's Mika Hakkinen won the Austrian Grand Prix. Hakkinen kept the race win.

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1998 - Hungarian Grand Prix organisers fined $1 million after a track invasion at race won by Schumacher. Seventy five percent was suspended, payable if there was a similar incident within two years.

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1997 - Schumacher excluded from the final championship classification, but allowed to keep his race wins, after collision with Canadian Jacques Villeneuve in title-deciding European Grand Prix in Jerez.

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1994 - Schumacher handed a two-race suspension, and disqualified from British Grand Prix, for ignoring a black flag warning.

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1984 - Tyrrell excluded from competing in the second half of the championship and their results for the whole season cancelled for a technical infringement.

The team, competing against turbo-charged rivals with a normally-aspirated engine, ran light for much of the race before having lead shot pumped in with the fuel at the final pitstop to bring the cars back up to the legal weight.

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[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Not enough?

The racing car business is very, very, big indeed. $100m is not out of order, I'd say.

MG