The International Sporting Code was tweaked ahea🍌d of this weekenღd’s F1 United States Grand Prix, most notably amending a regulation that hadn’t been touched for 12 years.

It enables FIA stewards to dish out fines to F1 drivers to a maximum of €1m, which has qua꧋drupled from €250,000 under the late🤪st changes.

Mercedes team princip✨al Wolff said: "The🔯re needs to be some deterrent for grave infringements of the regulations. 

“But none of that was on the ra🥃dar of anyoneﷺ, that it would be coming.

"€1m? We need to do a reality check with real life, whether that is🌱 an adequate fine or not. 

“I don't 🔴think we've ever fined a driver €250,000, so raising the ceiling is something that one needs to understand where it comes from.

"We don't ꦜwant to portray Formula 1 out there in th🐈e world where it's tough enough, to give drivers fines of €1m. 

“I thin🌞k half of th🐲e grid wouldn't be able to pay them. 

“I don't think it is ♉adequate, considering. I don't think we should be playing around with those numbers that seem very surreal to people who are watching us."

Mercedes’ George Russell previous🌄ly said: "I think it's pretty ridiculous that a driver could be fined €1m.

"In my first year of Formula 1 I was on a five-figure salary. I♕ actually lost over six figures in that first year from paying for my trainer, paying for flights, paying for an assistant. 

“That's probably the🐷 case for 25 percent of the grid.

"We're doing what we lov🅘e, so we're not complaining about that. 

“But if you take a year-one driver who pro𝓰bably by the end of the year is losing over €100,000 because of the investments he has to make, [then] you fine them €1m. What's goi🍨ng to happen?"