The FIA has introduced Johnny Herbert will not serve on its panel of stewards.
The 60-year-old, who’s a three-times grand prix winner, has been an everyday member of the FIA’s stewarding panels over the past 15 years. He made his debut within the function throughout 2010, when ex-drivers had been first invited to hitch the stewards.
Nonetheless Herbert has drawn some criticism for feedback made to companies supplying quotes to media retailers in recent times. He has commonly given quotes to playing firms who then provide them to media in change for promotional hyperlinks, as when he commented on the controversy surrounding Max Verstappen and Lando Norris’s conflict in final 12 months’s Austrian Grand Prix.
The FIA indicated that is a part of the explanation why it has determined to stop utilizing Herbert as a steward.
“It’s with remorse that we announce at this time that Johnny Herbert will not fulfil the place of F1 driver steward for the FIA,” it stated in a press release.
“Johnny is extensively revered and introduced invaluable expertise and experience to his function. Nonetheless, after dialogue, it was mutually agreed that his duties as an FIA steward and that of a media pundit had been incompatible. We thank him for his service and want him properly in his future endeavours.”
Herbert made his remaining look as a steward on the Brazilian Grand Prix. He served as steward at a 3rd of final 12 months’s rounds, making him the busiest of the FIA’s 4 driver stewards. The opposite former drivers who carried out the function had been Vitantonio Liuzzi, Derek Warwick and Enrique Bernoldi.
Among the many notable incidents Herbert was concerned in ruling on final 12 months had been these involving title contenders Verstappen and Norris in Austria and Mexico. He was additionally a part of the panel which handed Fernando Alonso a 20-second time penalty and three factors on his licence for what they referred to as a “doubtlessly harmful” manoeuvre when he braked twice in entrance of George Russell within the Australian Grand Prix.
Races Herbert officiated at throughout 2024
Australian Grand Prix, Albert Park
Austrian Grand Prix, Purple Bull Ring
Dutch Grand Prix, Zandvoort
Italian Grand Prix, Monza
Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Baku Metropolis Circuit
Singapore Grand Prix, Singapore
Mexican Grand Prix, Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez
Brazilian Grand Prix, Interlagos
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