JANUARY 18, 2003
FIA offers $1m reward to catch cheats
The FIA is planning to offer a $1 million reward to anyone who provides evidence of cheating in F1 this year. The reward will be paid from heavy fines which will be levied on any offenders. The FIA says it is looking to ban all the major electronic systems this year and that anyone cheating will be nailed
FIA sources say that the attitude at the meeting will probably result in the federation adopting an even harder line and insisting that all the electronic systems be turned off from the start of the 2003 season. Several teams have already started testing the current cars to see if this is possible. BAR and Toyota are both believed to have run their cars with the systems disconnected.