Four time Formula One champion Alain Prost will be part of the steward panel at this weekend’s Bahrain grand Prix, the first of many former drivers that will sit in on judgement of the actions of modern day Formula One drivers and the Frenchman believes the move, implemented by FIA President Jean Todt, is the best thing they could have done.

Damon Hill, Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Alex Wurz are also expected to take part in the process at some stage over the course of the season and the hope is that fair judgement calls will be made in all on track incidents....

"It's a good move," Prost told BBC Sport. "Jean and I discussed many times that an ex-driver should be part of the discussions. It's important the FIA can have the experience of a racing driver. What you want to avoid is a big penalty for somebody in only a normal racing incident, and you want to avoid what we see many times, very bad manoeuvres but without any penalty.”

“It's an experiment; we will see how it goes. I think it's important FIA can have the experience of a racing driver, normally the stewards have never done any racing, but we should not over-estimate it, they know the rules and have the experience so it will be a good combination.”