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.

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

The FIA announced on Wednesday that Johnny Herbert, a former driver who notched three Grand Prix victories during his time on the grid, was being dropped as a race steward. Herbert first became a race official for the 2010 season, when the FIA first added former drivers to the list of stewards.

Johnny Herbert has been removed from his role as an F1 steward for the FIA after the governing body decided his punditry work was incompatible with the position

Johnny Herbert has joined the recently revived motorsport outfit Lola as a brand ambassador – just one day after losing his role as an F1 steward this year. On Wednesday morning, former F1 driver Herbert,

Johnny Herbert had been set to act as F1 driver steward at the F1 2025 Australian Grand Prix before being dropped by the FIA.

The FIA announced this week that Johnny Herbert will no longer serve as a Formula 1 steward amid a conflict of interest between that role and the Brit's media work

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

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.