Johnny Herbert will not function an F1 driver steward from the 2025 season, the FIA has introduced.
F1’s governing physique stated the 2 events had “mutually agreed” that the position Herbert – who gained three Grand Prix throughout a 160-race profession between 1989 and 2000 – fulfilled when serving as a steward at F1 occasions was “incompatible” together with his work within the media.
“It’s with remorse that we announce at present that Johnny Herbert will not fulfil the place of F1 driver steward for the FIA,” learn the assertion.
“Johnny is broadly revered and introduced invaluable expertise and experience to his position.
“Nonetheless, after dialogue, it was mutually agreed that his duties as an FIA steward and that of a media pundit have been incompatible. We thank him for his service and need him properly in his future endeavours.”
The previous driver offered his opinions on F1 within the media by way of varied retailers through the 2024 season, together with his views on Max Verstappen’s controversial driving finally October’s Mexico Metropolis that includes in a column for a betting web site after that race.
Herbert had been on the four-person stewards’ panel who handed Verstappen two 10-second time penalties in Mexico for clashes with title rival Lando Norris.
Each Verstappen and his father Jos subsequently hit again at Herbert’s essential opinions, with the latter utilizing a subsequent column to defend his proper to specific his views within the media and state that his opinions have been separate from his work in knowledgeable capability as a former driver for the FIA.
F1’s rotating four-person stewards panel at grands prix has included one former driver since 2010. Herbert final appeared at November’s Sao Paulo GP.
Johnny Herbert will not function an F1 driver steward from the 2025 season, the FIA has introduced.
F1’s governing physique stated the 2 events had “mutually agreed” that the position Herbert – who gained three Grand Prix throughout a 160-race profession between 1989 and 2000 – fulfilled when serving as a steward at F1 occasions was “incompatible” together with his work within the media.
“It’s with remorse that we announce at present that Johnny Herbert will not fulfil the place of F1 driver steward for the FIA,” learn the assertion.
“Johnny is broadly revered and introduced invaluable expertise and experience to his position.
“Nonetheless, after dialogue, it was mutually agreed that his duties as an FIA steward and that of a media pundit have been incompatible. We thank him for his service and need him properly in his future endeavours.”
The previous driver offered his opinions on F1 within the media by way of varied retailers through the 2024 season, together with his views on Max Verstappen’s controversial driving finally October’s Mexico Metropolis that includes in a column for a betting web site after that race.
Herbert had been on the four-person stewards’ panel who handed Verstappen two 10-second time penalties in Mexico for clashes with title rival Lando Norris.
Each Verstappen and his father Jos subsequently hit again at Herbert’s essential opinions, with the latter utilizing a subsequent column to defend his proper to specific his views within the media and state that his opinions have been separate from his work in knowledgeable capability as a former driver for the FIA.
F1’s rotating four-person stewards panel at grands prix has included one former driver since 2010. Herbert final appeared at November’s Sao Paulo GP.
