Zach Brown suggests that all teams pay stewards

      Zak Brown, chief executive of McLaren Racing, believes championship teams can absorb some of the cost of moving towards the practice of bringing in permanent stewards who would be paid regular monetary remuneration. Currently, stewards work on a voluntary basis, which has sometimes caused controversial situations - a recent example being the FIA's recent announcement that Johnny Herbert would no longer be employed in a stewarding role. The federation believes that the continued collaboration of the former stewarding steward "The role of FIA steward and the duties of a media observer are incompatible," the FIA said in a statement. "In our sport, with its multi-billion dollar revenues, stewards work for free and on a temporary basis, while in Formula 1 it is all about making the right decisions," Brown is quoted by RacingNews365 as saying. - To the stewards themselves there are no questions, but the current rules impose too many restrictions. I would like us to take a step back and loosen these restrictions, and let us have permanent stewards, which would be able to make subjective decisions, regardless of whether they will be correct or not. As for paying for their work, even if my proposal is not very popular among the championship participants, I would be fine if McLaren and all the other teams would chip in. If everyone contributes to such an important task, hardly anyone would go broke. Although I do not know what formal arrangements exist here between the FIA and Formula 1, and who has what expectations with the issue of judging. In any case, these arrangements imply that temporary stewards are not paid. In any business, if you want to change something, these kinds of decisions are made through a formal order, and when change happens, you have to pay for it. And if we have to pay, I do not think that the size of such a fee will be significant, if you divide it into shares, which will be paid by McLaren, and Formula 1, and the FIA ..."