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Sky Sports F1 reporter Ted Kravitz believes that the FIA’s jewellery clampdown at the Australian GP was aimed at Lewis Hamilton.

The Friday drivers’ briefing at the Australian Grand Prix threw up a few interesting topics, including the demand to wear fireproof underwear, while Formula 1’s jewellery ban, brought in back in 2005, was dug back up.

So, body piercings and metal neck chains are prohibited due to fears that they could cause injury in a collision, while race director Niels Wittich also noted that drivers may be checked before the race start to ensure that they are complying.

And by Kravitz’s estimation, Hamilton is the driver that this ruling targets.

“We checked with Mick Schumacher who wears, when he’s not in the car, a metal chain necklace and he says he doesn’t wear it in the car, so it isn’t him,” said Kravitz on his ‘Ted’s Notebook‘ programme for Sky Sports F1.

“So it did seem to be on the face of it, a measure, or wanting to enforce a rule specifically targeted at Lewis Hamilton who of course has ear piercings and a nose piercing.”

Kravitz said that he did put his theory to the FIA, which was categorically rejected.

But, regardless he stressed that surely the FIA should have greater priorities before lights out than coming to check that