Once again, the FIA will fill its bank account thanks to the generous participation of the teams.
The price of success: this is what we could call the registration bonuses that the teams will have to pay to the Federation. Bonuses indexed on the number of points and the ranking of manufacturers.
Indeed since 2013, as part of the Concorde Agreement, the FIA establishes the registration fees for each team based on the points accumulated during the previous season.
Originally, the system was based on a flat fee of $500,000, plus $5,000 for each point scored, except for the constructors' champion, who had to pay an extra $6,000 per point.
For the 2025 season, these amounts have been revised upwards in order to take into account inflation (and in order, of course, to finish re-filling the coffers of the Place de la Concorde).
So the base fee now stands at $680,203 for all teams, with an additional cost of $8,161 per point for the constructors' champion, while other teams pay $6,799 per point.
If teams progressing in the manufacturers' standings have to incur higher costs, teams falling behind may see their costs reduced. A good deal? Not really because these savings do not make it possible to compensate for the significant commercial losses: thus by finishing 6th and not 9th in the manufacturers' ranking, Alpine F1 pocketed 30 million dollars in addition to the FOM… Enough to largely compensate for the additional costs.
The situation at Red Bull also illustrates a significant development. After an exceptional 2023 season marked by 21 victories out of 22 races and a record total of 860 points, the team had to pay $7,445,817 in registration fees for 2024. For 2025, after a less dominant season, scoring “only” 589 points and placing third instead of first, her entry fee drops to 4,684,814 $, a saving of $2,761,003. However, this reduction is marginal compared to the estimated loss of $20 or $30 million in premiums and trading revenue.
McLaren is going to checkout. With a spectacular increase, going from 324 points in 2023 to 666 in 2024, McLaren sees its registration fees increase by $3.471 million. It's a lot, but probably not as much as the commercial benefits of the first title in the constructors' ranking in 26 years.
Ferrari, having scored 652 points in 2024 compared to 489 in 2023, suffers an increase in its costs of 1.786 million dollars.
With 468 points in 2024 compared to 505 in 2023, Mercedes sees its costs decrease slightly, by around $485,000.
The other teams, excluding Alpine F1, saw an almost marginal increase in their costs. For example, Haas saw its costs increase from $736,737 to $1,074,545, a moderate increase linked to a slight improvement in its results.
Note that the FIA will collect no less than 2.1 million dollars more in total since the season has gone from 22 to 24 races and from 3 to 6 sprints, or 312 more points distributed over the year!
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