Wolff: No "conscious bias” from F1 stewards despite Hamilton suggestion

Hamilton made the claim in Barcelona on Wednesday, saying that some driver stewards travel with "certain individuals" with whom they are friendly, and implying that a close relationship could have an impact on their thought process.

The stewarding system was not addressed by new FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem in his recent statement on changes to the way the sport is refereed.

While insisting that he didn't think stewards showed a bias, Wolff said that the key was to have consistency.

"I think we need professionalism in the stewards' room," said Wolff.

"I don't think there is a conscious bias, to be honest, [they are] intelligent people. But most important is whenever we talk about the race direction, the support that they will have back at base, or the stewards, there need to be a standard.

"This is what we deserve. And this is what everybody expects. And I think there's some very good people that we can build upon. Most important, and we all have talked about it last year, was the topic of inconsistency.

"And there shouldn't be a lot of room to interpret the rules. There shouldn't be a lot of how can I say leniency, depending on what the potential outcome might be.

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"But the rules are the rules. I think as everything is being restructured I have faith in Mohammed that going forward, we will optimise all these structures."

Christian Horner, Team Principal Red Bull Racing

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Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner said that the rules leave too much room for interpretation by race control and the stewards, especially in controversial areas such as track limits.

"I think a lot of issues are to do with the regulations themselves,