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I apologize if someone already proposed this, but what if, instead of a grid penalty we just make it a financial penalty split between the team and the supplier?

So say you need to replace a gearbox outside the allowed amount, there is a fine. Two thirds of that fine is paid by the supplier, one third by the team (There needs to be an incentive for the teams to not abuse their components).

You could say this will give rich teams an advantage, but as a rich team most likely makes their own gearboxes their fine will be three times as high compared to a customer team.


Advantages:
- Doesn't hurt the drivers
- Doesn't hurt the customer teams as much (they are not the builders in the first place).
- Doesn't mess up the grid/race weekend/championship.
- Stimulates durable components.
- Takes press attention away from component penalties because fines are less sexy to write about than grid penalties. Thus improving F1 image.

What do you say?