LETTERS

HE HAMILTON, VERSTAPPEN ACCIDENT AT SILVERSTONE TO ME ILLUSTRATED what a corner F1 has driven itself into with its stewarding standards. This was obviously an incident the stewards needed to study. There are a number of different opinions. If it was a racing incident, I still think Lewis was the main culprit and should have received a drive-through penalty. However, the real issue is the two penalty points that were added to his licence. Lando Norris received two licence penalty points just for defending his position in Austria and this is where the problem lies. The stewards are involving themselves in far too many incidents. Stewards awarding penalty seconds like confetti is doing real harm to F1 – they could almost be said to be bringing the sport into disrepute – and the FIA needs urgently to sort it out. When I became interested in the sport in the mid-1950s, it was called motor racing. I believe it still is, and