![]() ![]() The Haas chief added: "Every professional sport has got professionals being referees and stuff like this. He went on to suggest a fixed panel of stewards is needed in F1 to help improve decision-making and lead to more consistency. How can you be sure of a collision? And if you don't know if it is one or not, what is it then? Innocent until proven guilty, not guilty until I prove innocent. Somebody wants to tell me there is a collision, they have difficulty showing it. "I looked at numerous pictures and I cannot see a collision. Hulkenberg was penalised for an incident on the first lap of the Monaco race (Image: HOCH ZWEI/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images) There are other people running into each other during the race and they get a black and white flag. "It's Lap 1, there was no collision, and what should we make, a parade? Because it's Monte Carlo, if you don't do this. Not arguing it but trying to get it explained because I think it was completely wrong. We're still trying to find out, I'm still arguing it. A collision is touching, no? That's what the definition is. "I just looked at the picture and Nico comes from the inside and is in front, basically, dives into the corner, but I can't see a collision. I mean, I was just doing emails at the moment and trying to look at pictures and I think there was no collision. "I'm trying to find out because nobody can explain it to me. "Good question!" he said sarcastically when asked what that punishment was handed out from. ![]() ![]() Guenther Steiner called on this to change as he ranted to journalists in Barcelona about a penalty received by Nico Hulkenberg last weekend in Monaco. Wittich is now in sole charge of the sport's race direction, but the stewards who rule on incidents and hand out penalties continue to rotate. Despite some sympathy from teams and drivers over the fact they were inexperienced in F1, there were plenty of complaints over the course of the year that the rotation between races as leading to greater inconsistency. Last year, the role was shared by Niels Wittich and Eduardo Freitas. It turned out to be Michael Masi's final event as race director as he was later axed for his "human error" which changed the outcome of the title race. The policing of the sport has been a hot topic of conversation ever since the controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. One Formula 1 team boss has called for the introduction of professional stewards amid concerns over consistency in decision-making. ![]()
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