FIA issued updated stewards’ guidelines for driving standards and penalties

Ahead of this weekend’s opening round, the FIA has updated the guidelines for Formula 1 driving standards and penalties. In the last couple years, stewards’ decisions have provided way too many distractions from the racing, and imprecise, contradictory, or overly prescriptive guidelines have led a lot of F1 drivers to questionable on-track decisions. Something does need to change about this, and it seems like they’re going less prescriptive and more principles-based, which is good. The real problem, though, is that stewards are part-time volunteers, they change often, and few of them have enough racing experience to make knowledgeable rulings. How this sport has not yet figured out how to pay for professional stewards is beyond me.