Schumi joins McLaren fine committee

Michael Schumacher has been appointed to the committee that will decide how McLaren's $60 million fine from the spying case will be spent.

The FIA World Motor Sport Council approved the committee membership in a meeting today.

Schumacher is joined in the management of the specially-created Motor Sport
Safety Development Fund by FIA president Max Mosley, American federation president Nick Craw (who represents national sporting authorities), former Ferrari boss Jean Todt and Mercedes' motorsport chief Norbert Haug.

Todt and Haug have been included as their teams were the protagonists in the espionage controversy, while Schumacher and Mosley are trustees of the FIA Foundation, which will administer the new fund.

"The intention is to disperse the Fund over the next five years and to concentrate activities on a Young Driver Safety Scholarship Programme, an Officials Skills Safety Training Programme and a Facility Safety Improvement Consultancy Programme," said an FIA statement.

McLaren received the record-breaking fine in September last year after being found guilty of breaching the sporting code by possessing and gaining advantage from confidential Ferrari data.

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