We’ve already had a look at the update statistics for this season, so why not take a look at how the stewards shape up as well?
I’ve gone through the stewards’ decisions for the season so far, and mapped the decisions from the on track incidents. I’ve ignored the technical infringements like automatic track limits penalties, pit lane speeding, unsafe releases, swearing in the press conferences, etc – so we’re only evaluating the on-track incidents: Impeding, forcing others off track, causing collisions, that sort of thing.
And a big disclaimer: This is not a measure of the quality of each individual steward – this is simply a tally of the decisions each of them have been involved in. There are four stewards in the room for every race – no one steward is any more responsible for an outcome than the others.
For this article I’ve considered penalties as only decisions with either a time or grid drop. Fines, reprimands and warnings I have not considered penalties. I also don’t take into account if decisions were controversial or not, or if one race was busier than another.
Here’s the complete breakdown:
| Steward | R | I | RW | P | NFA | %INFAR | %IPR | TGP | AGP | GPP | TTP | ATP | TPP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johnny Herbert | 8 | 34 | 11 | 16 | 7 | 21% | 47% | 11 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 130 | 16.3 | 8.1 |
| Viantonio Liuzzi | 7 | 27 | 4 | 15 | 8 | 30% | 56% | 12 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 115 | 16.4 | 7.7 |
| Loïc Bacquelaine | 7 | 29 | 0 | 15 | 14 | 48% | 52% | 14 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 95 | 13.6 | 6.3 |
| Nish Shetty | 6 | 24 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 29% | 58% | 6 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 125 | 20.8 | 8.9 |
| Gary Connelly | 6 | 26 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 35% | 54% | 1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 95 | 15.8 | 6.8 |
| Mathieu Remmerie | 6 | 18 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 22% | 61% | 7 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 70 | 11.7 | 6.4 |
| Matthew Selley | 6 | 17 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 29% | 41% | 6 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 60 | 10.0 | 8.6 |
| Derek Warwick | 5 | 23 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 35% | 57% | 4 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 80 | 16.0 | 6.2 |
| Tim Mayer | 5 | 21 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 24% | 33% | 11 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 50 | 10.0 | 7.1 |
| Matteo Perini | 5 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 11% | 32% | 9 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 40 | 8.0 | 6.7 |
| Felix Holter | 5 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 29% | 50% | 12 | 2.4 | 1.7 | 30 | 6.0 | 4.3 |
| Dennis Dean | 3 | 16 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 25% | 75% | 3 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 80 | 26.7 | 6.7 |
| Enrique Bernoldi | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 40% | 20% | 3 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Andrew Mallalieu | 2 | 12 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 8% | 83% | 3 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 80 | 40.0 | 8.0 |
| Amro Al Hamad | 1 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 14% | 86% | 1 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 45 | 45.0 | 7.5 |
| Zheng Honghai | 1 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 50% | 50% | 3 | 3.0 | 0.8 | 40 | 40.0 | 10.0 |
| Alfonso Oros Trigueros | 1 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 43% | 57% | 5 | 5.0 | 1.3 | 30 | 30.0 | 7.5 |
| Wilhelm Singer | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 40% | 60% | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 30 | 30.0 | 10.0 |
| Valerio Brizzolari | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 20% | 60% | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 25 | 25.0 | 8.3 |
| Gerd Ennser | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0% | 75% | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 25 | 25.0 | 8.3 |
| Luciano Burti | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0% | 75% | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 25 | 25.0 | 8.3 |
| Hassan Alabdali | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 67% | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 20 | 20.0 | 10.0 |
| Jean-François Calmes | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 40% | 20% | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 10 | 10.0 | 10.0 |
| Danil Solomin | 1 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 11% | 0% | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Mazen Al Hilli | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| David Domingo | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 33% | 3 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Arie Kroeze | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 50% | 3 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Marcel Demers | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 67% | 33% | 3 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Ian Watson | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| István Móni | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Kazuhiro Tsuge | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Paul Ng | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0% | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Steward | R | I | RW | P | NFA | %INFAR | %IPR | TGP | AGP | GPP | TTP | ATP | TPP |
R = Races
I = Investigations
RW = Reprimands & warnings
P = Penalties
NFA = No further action
%INFAR = Investigations to no further action ratio
%IPR = Investigations to penalties ratio
TGP = Total grid penalties (Grid spots)
AGP = Average grid penalties per race (Grid spots)
GPP = Grid penalties per penalty awarded (Grid spots)
TTP = Total time penalties (Seconds)
ATP = Average time penalties per race (Seconds)
TPP = Time penalties per penalty awarded (Seconds)
