Carlos Sainz has suggested that the FIA should call upon recently retired Formula One drivers, such as Sky Sports F1 analysts Karun Chandhok and Anthony Davidson, to join the stewarding ranks and do away with the controversial racing guidelines.

Sainz has been on both sides of some controversial penalties this season, most notably with Liam Lawson in Zandvoort and Oliver Bearman in Monza, and has spoken out against what he views as inconsistent stewarding from the FIA.

However, the Williams driver believes he has landed on a solution after consuming post-race analysis content from Sky Sports F1 and F1 TV. Rather than rely on volunteer stewards, Sainz is considering the implications of hiring drivers with recent experience to make penalty decisions on a case-by-case basis.

"I've seen some analysis done of quite a lot of the incidents, and I think there was some of them Karun Chandhok, in some of them Jolyon Palmer, some of them Anthony Davidson," Sainz said at the Qatar Grand Prix.

"Every time I see this analysis that they do and the verdict that they give from racing drivers that have been recently racing, I think they do a very good analysis and they put the blame correctly most of the time on who actually has the blame, or if it's actually just a racing incident.

"My future ideal is no guidelines and people that are able to judge these sort of incidents, as well as these three people that I just mentioned do after the races. Again, this is just my opinion, but I'm quite impressed at the job that some of the broadcasts do after a race with this in-depth analysis of each of the incidents and how they apply blame or no blame into certain scenarios.

"I think that's a level of analysis and a level of steward-ness, if you want to call it that way, that I think is very high level. It probably doesn't mean that we will agree 100 per cent on the cases of what these three people, three ex-drivers, give, but I think they are a lot of times are very close to being 90 per cent correct.

"I really feel like they understood what happened in that incident and the judgement that they take. And this doesn't mean that the stewards don't do a good job, it just means what I see after the race from these people is actually a very high level. I think without guidelines, they would be able to judge each decision correctly, and there wouldn't be a bias or anything like that."

Unfortunately for Sainz, Chandhok has no plans to change his allegiances just yet. Quoting a video of the Spaniard speaking in Qatar, he posted on X: "Ha! Thanks @Carlossainz55 .... Would be good to work with the drivers and stewards for the betterment of the sport but not ready to give up the day job yet."