Johnny Herbert confirms Australian GP F1 steward role and makes Max Verstappen prediction

Former F1 racer and Sky Sports pundit Johnny Herbert volition again service arsenic an FIA steward successful the 2025 season, contempt complaints from Max Verstappen fans implicit his comments astir the Dutchman past year

Johnny Herbert has confirmed helium volition proceed his relation arsenic an FIA steward during the 2025 Formula 1 season.

Four stewards are appointed for each contention of the World Championship, with respective radical retained by the FIA to bash the job. They rotate and thin to bash respective races per year, with Herbert 1 of the quartet kicking disconnected the caller run successful Melbourne successful March.

Herbert inactive besides works arsenic a pundit and regularly gives his opinions to assorted websites. And it was done that enactment that past twelvemonth helium earned the ire of Max Verstappen fans aft his disapproval of the Red Bull driver.

Some suggested it was a struggle of involvement for a steward to besides beryllium sharing specified beardown opinions connected the athletics helium is successful complaint of policing. But Herbert dismissed that conception and insists his punditry enactment is wholly abstracted to his obligations erstwhile connected work with the FIA.

Looking up to his enactment successful Melbourne, helium told Casinoutanspelpaus.io: "From a stewarding constituent of view, I don't expect thing successful Australia. It each happens successful the moment. There are inactive going to beryllium incidents, determination are inactive going to beryllium complaints from teams and drivers and we're going to person to woody with that arsenic normal.

"The mode that the racing rules person gone, it's made it much arsenic racing was erstwhile we were doing karting. I cognize George Russell mentioned that, it was crazy, this apex worldly and present we've fixed abstraction connected the exits. We ne'er did that successful karting, that was ne'er portion of it. And I ne'er accepted this giving space.

"You person to instrumentality the space, that abstraction is for you truthful you instrumentality it and if the different operator is not rather determination past helium backs out, that's racing. It's not a regularisation that says, 'Oh no, you can't bash that', you've got to gain it. The quality we person from past twelvemonth to this twelvemonth with the racing is the racing rules."

And those changed rules, successful Herbert's view, volition enactment successful Verstappen's favour arsenic helium goes astir trying to triumph a 5th drivers' rubric successful a row. The Brit added: "The champion drivers volition radiance much with the caller rules. We each saw the brainsick apex rules and penalties successful Mexico, for example. I deliberation it'll beryllium a somewhat antithetic season.

"From Max Verstappen’s constituent of view, yes, aggression is ever going to beryllium portion of what helium does, but he's inactive improving his racing skills, qualifying skills and he's inactive got plentifulness successful his backmost pouch if helium ever needs it. Does Verstappen request a team-mate that volition propulsion him a small spot more? Well, that's wherever Liam Lawson has present got to radiance arsenic well, successful that precise hard concern of being up against 1 of the world's champion astatine the infinitesimal - astir apt 1 of the top ever.

"It volition lone beryllium a affirmative happening for Verstappen to person a team-mate that volition propulsion him and what that volition do, unluckily for everybody else, is determination Verstappen to different level. If helium does scope that adjacent level, that's wherever everything changes."