Crimson Bull workforce principal Christian Horner strongly endorsed the FIA’s resolution to half methods with Johnny Herbert, who has served as an advisor to the stewards since 2010.
The FIA introduced this week it had mutually parted methods with Herbert as his work was “incompatible” along with his media position. Herbert has commented on his position as a steward in quotes provided to playing web sites, which provide them to media.
One such quote was distributed following final 12 months’s Austrian Grand Prix, during which the panel that Herbert was on gave Max Verstappen a 10-second time penalty for inflicting a collision. Herbert defined this was the “hardest” penalty accessible for his collision with Lando Norris.
Horner denied any hyperlink between Herbert’s ousting and Verstappen, however stated his departure is the proper transfer.
“It’s completely nothing to do with Max, however completely the proper resolution,” Horner instructed Sky. “You can’t have stewards working within the media.
“You don’t have it within the premiership [football league], you don’t have it in some other type of skilled sport, it’s completely inappropriate. You’re both on the sporting, regulatory aspect otherwise you’re on the media aspect. You possibly can’t have a foot in each camps.”
The FIA rotates its 4 stewards from race to race. Herbert was one in every of 4 ex-drivers who carried out the position and coated one-third of final 12 months’s 24 rounds.
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Nonetheless some in F1, equivalent to McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown, consider the FIA ought to use the identical stewards at each spherical.
“We’re in a multi-billion greenback sport, rather a lot on the road, stewarding isn’t straightforward,” he stated. “I feel it is advisable have full-time stewards, they have to be paid.”
Brown believes having the identical stewards each weekend would permit the FIA to loosen elements of the rules and permit for a higher diploma of interpretation.
“We have to take a look at the rule e-book, I feel it’s a bit too prescriptive,” he stated. “And if you happen to get some stewards in full time, give them a little bit bit extra leniency, they know what’s proper and mistaken versus this ‘race to the apex’ stuff as a result of it’s a bit too prescriptive and it’s simply taking a little bit little bit of the racing out of it. So I feel it’ll be mounted.”
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