FIA president Jean Todt has called for greater consistency amongst the penalties handed out by race stewards during the grand prix weekend.
Whilst he believes the introduction of driver stewards has helped the situation, he says there is room for improvement and has called for greater analysis of the consequences of a penalty.
“Rather then always applying penalties you must analyse the consequences of the penalties,” he said during an FIA meeting chaired by Charlie Whiting.
“Consistency, for me, is crucial,” he added.
The Frenchman suggested the stewards circulate their notes as to why the penalty was applied to give other stewards a better understanding of the situation and reasoning.
“You have a very difficult job but you are now better supported by all the electronic facilities which help in analysing incidents,” he said. “The only thing you should now concentrate on, other than the good job you are doing, is how to do it better. It would be good to speak to your partners, the teams and the drivers, who can give you good input.”
Meanwhile the board also supported a move to introduce a points system whereby a penalty has a certain amount of points assigned to it, which will be transferred to the offending driver’s race license and could result in a race ban if they’re a repeat offender.
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