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Irvine not interested in steward job
29 July 2010Eddie Irvine has said that he would not be wishing to volunteer as an FIA race steward without confirmation that he would have a great influence over on-track incidents, bearing in mind previous decisions with which the Ulsterman has disagreed.
Irvine retired from Formula 1 after losing his Jaguar seat and not being selected for a place at Jordan prior to 2003. However, the 1999 World Championship runner-up for Ferrari continues to be a keen follower of the sport despite admitting that some aspects annoy him.
“Only if I could call the shots, 100 percent,” he told F1 Racing magazine when asked if he would be interested in acting as a steward under the FIA’s new-for-2010 scheme.
“I'm not going to sit down and have a discussion with a load of people I don't know about whether someone should be done. I totally disagree with what happened to Lewis (Hamilton) at Spa in 2008. I can't be bothered having arguments about stuff that doesn't make any difference to me.”
Eddie then responded to those who labelled him as more of a ‘playboy’ than racing driver. “Listen, the only one of my team-mates to ever really beat me in Formula 1 was Michael Schumacher,” he said. “Every other one, I out-qualified them mostly. If you look at my time at Jaguar, none of my team-mates there beat me - I don't think I actually got beaten in a race by a team-mate the whole time I was at Jaguar.”
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