The F1 2025 season hasn’t even began but already there is controversy after the FIA announced they’d dropped Johnny Herbert from the stewards’ line-up ahead his Australian GP appearance. Former F1 driver turned pundit Jan Lammers says that doesn’t “surprise me” after some of the comments Herbert made during last year’s campaign.

Formula 1 season gets underway, one of their race stewards has been removed by the sport’s governing body. The FIA announced on Wednesday that Johnny Herbert, a former driver who notched three Grand Prix victories during his time on the grid,

The former F1 driver was in line to be a steward at the season-opening race in Australia but was criticised by Jos Verstappen last year for his dual role as steward and pundit

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has said Johnny Herbert’s departure from his role as a rotating FIA steward is “absolutely the right decision”, and that it had “absolutely nothing to do” with Max Verstappen.

Johnny Herbert has been dropped as a Formula One steward for the upcoming 2025 season after it was “mutually agreed” that his work as a media pundit was “incompatible” with his work for the FIA.

Johnny Herbert will no longer serve as an FIA driver steward after being part of the organisation's roster of driver stewards since 2010.

The FIA has announced that Johnny Herbert will no longer serve as a steward, with his media punditry work declared “incompatible” with the role. Herbert had served on the rotating FIA panel as the driver steward,